About a month ago the car started leaking coolant, I looked and the lower radiator hose (the one attached to the bottom of radiator and has a bgi mouth opening to the top) had a gash in it, i wasnt aware it was from the radiator fan but now i know....How do i prevent contact between the fan and the hose? a spacer of some sort? i was thinking attaching a metal peice to by force seperate the 2? any suggestions? thanks in advance guys

 

I ran into an issue with fan clearance when I replaced my old 3 blade fan with the 6 blade. To solve the problem, I carefully nipped the corner of each fan blade off with a pair of side cuts.
I say carefully, because I did not want to throw off the ballance of the fan. I took precaution to hold the side cuts at a consistant angle, and the amount I snipped off was just as much as I could take in one cut - basically just the length of the blade.
Seems to be working fine.

 

I had the problem on one of my 924's. a Couple of cable ties fixed it.

 

I think that there is a upgraded hose as well.

I think this part number should be the newer style.

944 106 237 07

When you change out to the 6 blade fans you should change to the new hose as well.

 

I'd expect your car to be leaking coolant because of over heating....I saw your videos on youtube.com

 

im confused u saw my videos on you tube and u knew my car was over heating? it wasn't overheating at the time i took the videos and it staretd overheating because of this puntured hose.....explain...i never changed to a 6 fan hwo would i use the cable ties?

 

I used cable ties... worked great.

 

I don't know how to put the zip ties (cable ties) but I assume there is something to the side where you can anchor to, in order to pull the hose away from the fan.

What I did was to loosen the lower hose clamp, twist the hose so it shifted away from the fan, then I tightened the clamp again. It's been working so far. I had this issue because my passenger fan broke, and the only ones my local porsche junkyard had were the 6-blade version.

 

Sorry, thought I read in your post that you had changed them out.

You should go ahead and do it. They can be had on ebay and such for less than 50.00

Quieter, runs less

It is plug and play compatibile, 6 screws, hour job.

You could still use the upgrade hose even if you have the 3 blade fans.

 

ill tell ya'll what i got under unscrewed a couple bolts on the bracket for the fan shroud and tightened a couple things...works great but i think im going to add some cable ties

 

I just about had exactly the same thing happen to my 924S. After getting over to my wife's stepmother's, delivering the car there for her to try out for a couple of weeks prior to buying... I realize water's coming out the bottom...

The upper rad hose got cut and was pinhole-peeing from contact with the alternator pulley!

Second hose getting cut on this dayum car - first one was the expansion tank hose, cut by the headlight linkage... argh.

 

Time for some SS radiator hoses!