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Jeff, most of the guys around here have converted their Goat trucks to electric fans, far more reliable and a bunch cheaper. Plus they can be setup to keep running for a bit after the truck is shut down to prevent residual heat build up.
If you want I can ask what they get them from, I know it's two fans from some import. One of my employees has a truck so modified.
Best of luck.
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Murf, yes please ask you employee about his set up.Flex-a-lite has a system they want over $500 using two fans.
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Ok, I had to go in this morning to do a few things and caught him at the shop.
It seems the conversion is simple and straight-forward, BUT (there's always a but, isn't there?) you can't do the electric fan conversion if your rig ends up at 18k # GCVW for towing etc., since the electric fans can't make enough CFM's to adequately cool the drive train under big loads.
You are stuck with a mechanical fan of some form.
His suggestion though was to skip the clutch fan and go to a flex type fan instead. It's about the same money as a stock fan will be, but will be a lifetime thing instead of replacing it every couple of years.
Best of luck.
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I wonder if there isn't a way to fasten the two clutch halves permanently together..... completely eliminating the slip function. A heavy towing rig is going to need to have the fan engaged most of the time anyway.
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Joel, the problem is that over about 35 mph the fan is actually spinning slow enough that the air coming through it is slower than the forward speed of the vehicle, in other words it is restricting the air flow, not boosting it.
The whole idea behind clutch fans is that they can be cycled on & off so that they are either 'helping or getting out of the way' and not restricting the air flow and creating unnecessary loads on the engine.
Flex fans work on a different principle, the blade is able to lay flat when not required and just spin, creating very little drag.
Electric fans just spin free when not powered.
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Yeah, too many new vehicles use complexity just for the sake of complexity.
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I sooooo agree!
I do however find that as I get older (hehehe) I really appreciate the 'little things' they automate in the vehicles these days.
My day-to-day ride, the SUV has a bunch of those nifty little things I just can't wait to fail;
The wipers that have an infrared sensor in the windshield, if something is hitting the window the wipers come on, and in proportion to your speed and the amount of rain, snow, etc., coming down. If you stop, they do also. No squeaky wipers at a red light.
The headlights come on automatically at a preset level of ambient light, and will lower the high-beams when you meet another vehicle.
If you turn on the rear window defogger, it also heats the outside rear views.
The list goes on and on.
Now if it would only remind me what it was I went to the store to get....... 
Joel, there was nothing wrong with fans that don't free wheel, but in an effort to gain fuel mileage and optimize cooling, they went the way of the no-draft window.
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I got to thinking...Murf is never wrong and could I be wrong? So I went to the web and found the above explanation. This reminds me of what my fishing buddy always says:I have only been wrong once in my life....and that's when I just THOUGHT I was wrong.Please forgive me questioning you  Brian |
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Not at all Brian, in fact I have been wrong many times.
As just one example, I'm on my third wife. 
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