2008 Equinox andTorrent vehicles built through the month of November 2007 will use the same twist-lock style fan blade design as the 2006 and 2007 model years. During November, a new supplier will begin providing new fan shroud assemblies for these vehicles. The fan shroud assembly components are not interchangeable between the two designs.
As this article is being written, there is not an absolute breakpoint for this change. There is however a visual inspection that can be used to determine which fan shroud assembly is in a 2008 vehicle.
For the first design 2008 fan shroud assembly, the cooling fan motors are mounted from theback side of the fan shroud with rivets (fig. 15).
For the second design 2008 fan shroud assembly, the cooling fan motors are mounted to the front side of the fan shroud with bolts (fig. 16).
As with 2006 and 2007, the first design 2008 fan blades are not reusable.
The second design 2008 fan blades are reusable, but the fan blade retainers must be replaced. These are the same fan blade retainers used for the 2005 model year.
- Thanks to Kevin Jakobiak
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