plastic replacement fan - not electric

[turbo84gn]

I need to replace the stock fan due to som cracked blades. I have noticed on the past few SUV's I have had (Bravada, and now the new TrailBlazer), they have belt driven fans that are plastic. Anyone know if any of these will fit our GN's? My Bravada was a V6, and my memory tells me it looks close, but wife would never let me take it off to see if it would fit

I don't want to switch to electric. Reason is I have no plans of ever putting in an intercooler, and I don't want that big empty space that the shroud now takes up. It looks silly to me.

TIA

 

[turbofish38]

They have more blades too. I've never done much research on this swap, but I think the number one problem is they rotate the wrong way.

 

[XRated]

I mounted an electric fan on my 84 and left the stock fan shroud in place. Just for the reason you said, no big open space in front of the engine.

 

[cool 84]

The open space is nice for standing in while you're working on it.

 

[Daniel Jost]

I have the large open space after the electric fans also, it is a good standing place when working on it, and it runs cooler than when i had the shroud on becuase i wanted to fill the large void area.

 

[kodak]

and along with the ford and gm plastic fans they screw on to the waterpump shaft. as outs bolts to it. fords have a bad problem of breaking after a while, look at older mustangs and explorers at a car show and see how many are cracked at the center of the fan....

 

[87GN_70GS]

With that huge shroud you could hide an additional electric booster fan inside it.