2003 BMW 325i 5 Speed Automatic Transmission Engine Cooling Fan Shroud TRQ RFA80918

What's up guys? I'm Andy from 1A Auto. In this video I'm going to show you how to replace the fan shroud on this 2001 BMW 325 XI. If you need this part or other parts for your vehicle, click the link to the description, head over to 1aauto.com.

With the trunk open over on the right side or the passenger side, there should be a cover that goes right here. This vehicle doesn't have one, but you're going to want to remove that cover. The battery is located right here. First thing I'm going to do is take a 10 millimeter socket and ratchet. Loosen up this nut for the negative terminal, and that's loose. Slide off the cable, slide it out of the way.

I'm going to take these push pins out right here. I'm just going to use some side cutters to get this center pin. Pull that up, and then slide it out. Be careful not to cut that. Get those out. Just grab this piece, slide it out.

We're going to disconnect this connector right here. Just push down on that. Slide that out. There's another connector right here. I'm going to slide the wiring out first, just like that and then connector will come out. Just slide that to the side like that. I'm going to take a T25 and a ratchet to take this screw out right here.

I'm just going to use this trim tool from 1aauto.com to take this push clip out. Get it in there. Pull that out right. All right, now that is loose.

But what we need to do is we need to take the fan off because the fan has to come out with the shroud as one. What we need to do to take the fan off is we need to disconnect the fan clutch from the engine side. This is attached to one of the pulleys right there. So sometimes these are somewhat difficult to get off, so what we're going to do is use this tool. We actually sell this at 1aauto.com with many different sizes. This happens to be the 32 millimeter. That's going to slide on there and then we slide this on. And with a pneumatic air hammer, we're going to give it a couple of bumps and it's going to loosen up that nut, and we should be able to get it off.

All right, so now I'm going to take the tool, and this fan clutch happens to be on there reverse thread. So it's going to seem like you're tightening it, but you're actually loosening it. So we'll go like that. Put our air hammer on there. Make sure you wear hearing protection and eye protection. All right, so that's loose. Took a little bit of effort but I got it.

Now you can slide the tool off. Just move it a little bit. There we go. And you should be able to just spin it off like that. Might need the tool once in awhile or you could use a wrench that fits, a 32 millimeter wrench. Right now I'm just going to keep loosening this up.

Be careful, you don't want the fan to fall. You don't want it to smash into the radiator, especially if you're going to reuse the radiator. If you're replacing it, it's not a big deal. So as I get closer to the end, I'll just move the fan and just grab the blade, and there we go. Now, I can slide this right up, just like that.

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We need to transfer this auxiliary fan sensor over to the new fan shroud. What you're going to do is grab this tab, you're going to pull it out a little bit and then raise it up. And then once it's raised up, you can push it in and then slide it up just like that. So there's these clips on the back side and this is kind of like a spring. So just like that, just transfer over to the new one. Just slide it in like this, clip it in the back side. So there's two feet, you can see the two feet went below and slide it forward and lock the front end.

So these have to go on together. Just slide this in position. Once you get this close, I'm going to start to tighten up the fan. Now these fan blades are ... the fan clutch is reverse thread, so it's almost like you're going to be loosening it. There's really no easy way to do this, just do it carefully. Once you get it started, it's a little bit easier. Make sure that fan shroud is in properly. That's good.

All right. If you have the ability to torque this nut for the fan, you're going to torque that between 22 and 29 foot pounds. I don't really have that ability, so I'm just going to put this tool on there and just give it a little tap. That should be good. Right here there's a push pin that's going to go back in here. Slide that in position and lock it down.

And on this side, we're going to put this screw right here and I'm going to use a T25 and a electric ratchet. Tighten this down, just snug. I'll position this wiring harness right here and we'll plug the connector in right here. Lock that in place. Take this piece, slide this into the air box, just like that. And there's retainers right here. Take those push pins, lock them down.

Then we can take the negative side, connect the negative side. Take the same 10 millimeter socket and ratchet, tighten it up. That's good. At this point, if you had that cover, you're going want to put the cover back where goes.

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