Asking because for some reason my WIS won't load and I can't locate the disc right now....

So I cracked the fan on my '14 E350 last weekend. Sourced a junkyard replacement. On the surface it looks to me just like the fan lifts right out of its' hooks once I push forward the top cover plate (the plate with the four tabs that snaps into the top of the rad, and just slides forward towards the grille). However, how do those little "t" shaped tabs on the bottom of the radiator come out of their slots? Does that bottom splash shield that the fan hooks into need to be removed before lifting the fan out of its' hooks? Or does it come out with the fan?

Thanks,
Darel

 

i don't have any useful insight here, but i'm curious, how did it crack?

 

I can neither confirm nor deny that a particular W212 owner may have been doing his 40,000-mile "B" service, and said owner may or may not have been jacking the car up on the front crossmember jacking point, and said W212 may have slipped off the jack and come crashing down on it, punching a nice jack-sized hole in the splash shield and breaking the fan. That''s all just conjecture though.

Said W212 owner may also now have learned to just stick a big-*** 1-1/4" bolt up in the hole in said crossmember to give the jack something to latch on to when doing this.

Said W212 owner is also extremely grateful said jack came down where it did, and not on the other side of the crossmember under the steering rack and crank pulley, or 2mm further forward and under the radiator.

 

That sounds like something I would have allegedly done.

 

I know some very unlucky backyard mechanics like that myself and I actually lived with one once. Well, actually I still kinda do. He is a pain in the a ss sometimes, or at least my(his) wife says he is.

 

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Thanks, I reloaded my WIS and got it done a couple weeks ago. I was very surprised it was as easy as it was. Thank you!