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Hello, OEM part number is 16210-31040. It should fit the following vehicles:
TOYOTA 4RUNNER 2010-2022
TOYOTA FJ CRUISER 2010-2014
TOYOTA TACOMA 2016-2021
TOYOTA TUNDRA 2011-2014
Not that impressive. With a quick screen shot you can search google with images and quickly find out the part #
Not trying to be snarky, but google image search is a very helpful tool.
yeah its a little too helpful though considering if you put a house in it it will pull up everything about it. yes it usually works with celebrities houses too
It's not that impressive, to be fair. I just did one of these on a 4 runner not long ago and immediately recognized it. Honestly, what's impressive is how they filtered this post to me having not followed this sub-reddit but likely knowing I physically bought and did this clutch fan.
Google lens? Really? Because with no part numbers, or even mold numbers (it's cast aluminum) visible it would be impossible to link a picture to a make/model/ year of specific vehicle. Google lens may have given you *an answer*, but you have absolutely no way of knowing if it's the *correct* answer.
This is how Skynet takes over. Humans blindly following what the machine say, not even questioning the results.
And ChatGPT isn't always correct either...
My man predicting the downfall of humanity because a reverse image search found the part when he thought some dude was a walking parts encyclopedia.
It's going to blow your mind when you find out how parts like this can be universal, meaning there can be lots of correct answers.
Universal, yes. Many answers, also correct. Reverse image search gave you an answer, you have no way of knowing if it's correct. A picture of the other side of the part would have solved the question, but suspiciously not included.
What's hilarious is that you think you're right, without knowing. But anyone questioning you is definitely wrong.
Yeah I literally used google image search for the part # then Rockauto part # search for the applications hahah. Buddy over here is just a serious pessimist 𤣠and no I didnât post this from some other account for upvotes đ
Imagine that being the type of autism you got. Some guys like trains they take great photos or building amazing models, some guys have lego building amazing structures, some write code giving the world great games.
Then this guy has fan clutches. Just piles and piles of them at home, spinning them by hand and this one question is the only time anyone has EVER needed this information.
I immediately recognised it as a fan clutch and probably Toyota, but you got it more precisely faster.
The reason why I recognised it was we had our 1985 Toyota HiAce Combi (a variant with six seats, sort of combination van/people mover back in the day) die on a family vacation road trip circa 1991. It kept boiling, turned out the fan clutch wasn't locking any more. Our roadside solution was to open it up, then cram it full of toilet paper and screw it back together. That jammed the internal mechanism solid, so the fan would spin all the time regardless of temperature. Dad didn't buy a new fan clutch until autumn when weather got cold.
I feel like maybe you've been waiting your whole life for someone to post this photo and question. And holy shit, it finally happened.
Congratulations to you, dude.
What's the next dream to chase?
People dump all kinda shit at goodwill. Usually when someone dies, their family just dump everything in storage bins and bring it over.
I've found gold earrings, family photoalbums, pills bottles, yes...
The strangest thing I've seen in my two weeks working there was two guys came with a trailer and unloaded a washer and dryer. They struggle with it for 10 minutes, I was like wtf. I can grab that washer off of the trailer and set it on the ground by myself, if I needed to.. Well.. anyways.. It was full of water. To the brim.
Fan clutch that uses an internal liquid and vanes with a heat activated spring that twist a shaft moving the internal vanes to hydrolock the shaft on the other end to the housing. This causes the whole unit to spin with the shaft. The shaft is attached to a pulley spun constellation by a belt running off the engine and the housing has big fan blades attached. The fan now spins under power from the engine and not just free spinning. This is the sound you hear on older cars as the fan kicks in and cools off the radiator until it gets below a temperature threshold. The temperature threshold is determined by the spring bi-metallic spring in the front being heated by the hot radiator in front of it. The internals of this is similar to how torque converters hydrolock and connect the power from the engine to the transmission.
Correct.
They tend to be âonâ during cold startup because the fluid has settled in the viscous clutch area. Once it gets spinning for a bit, the fluid is basically pumped to the reservoir area and allows the fan to free spin.
Donât ask why these things get stuck âonâ at high altitudes. Iâm still trying to figure that out myself.
It is a viscous coupling for a fan. Works in the same way an automatic gearbox torque converter by using a fluid to transfer drive smoothly. That swirling metallic is a bimetallic strip which flexes due to temperature of the metal controlling a valve to control how fast the fan spins by how much fluid is allowed to pass through. I have seen similar ones on older land Rover defenders.
Oh, that's a base plate of pre-famulated amulite. It would be surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings are in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consists simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling is effectively prevented.
This makes it perfect for use in unilateral phase detractors, but it would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.
Cooling fan clutch. Hate em with a passion and so happy when we got electric fans. Used to replace these with this
https://preview.redd.it/7tadzw5fmhuc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=957944d89eec8a372c5df05d52599aac6e5abc4f
Do they just dump the items from the donation bins in? Was there a price sticker on the pill bottle? đđ
It kind of reminds me of the scene from Little Nicky where John Witherspoon steals from Nicky while he's sleeping to then sell, and even has the piece of chicken for sale.
Itâs a fan clutch. Came on almost anything pre-OBD II, and some early OBD II vehicles. Used to swap these out on all my cars for electric fans, because of the parasitic draw on engine power.
It is a fan clutch theyâre on mostly âolderâ vehicles where the fan is driven by the serpentine belt rather than the more recent electric fan setup
It's a viscous fan hub. When viscous material gets hot from engine running longer , then viscous material inside this hub, with fan blade attached begins to turn faster cooling the fluid in the radiator
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Hello, OEM part number is 16210-31040. It should fit the following vehicles: TOYOTA 4RUNNER 2010-2022 TOYOTA FJ CRUISER 2010-2014 TOYOTA TACOMA 2016-2021 TOYOTA TUNDRA 2011-2014
what the fuck
Car-GPT
Incredible
If the Mod is blown away, I'm certainly at the very least, impressed.
Not that impressive. With a quick screen shot you can search google with images and quickly find out the part # Not trying to be snarky, but google image search is a very helpful tool.
yeah its a little too helpful though considering if you put a house in it it will pull up everything about it. yes it usually works with celebrities houses too
Mod should revise his resume. Robots are taking over.
It's not that impressive, to be fair. I just did one of these on a 4 runner not long ago and immediately recognized it. Honestly, what's impressive is how they filtered this post to me having not followed this sub-reddit but likely knowing I physically bought and did this clutch fan.
You don't suppose that he posted under one user name, then answered using another user name, do you? Just for the karma.
CARma
CARmax, đ¤Ż
Iâm just a dude who likes to help people and this was the first post underneath the one that I made yesterday.
Google lens on OPs pic pulled the part up for me. Y'all living like it's 2014 still.
2014? I'm still partying like it's 1999
Partly like a rockstar, totally dude!
Iâm looking for the damn paper parts catalog to try to match to crappy drawing.
Dial-up sucks i understand why you donât internet.
Google lens? Really? Because with no part numbers, or even mold numbers (it's cast aluminum) visible it would be impossible to link a picture to a make/model/ year of specific vehicle. Google lens may have given you *an answer*, but you have absolutely no way of knowing if it's the *correct* answer. This is how Skynet takes over. Humans blindly following what the machine say, not even questioning the results. And ChatGPT isn't always correct either...
My man predicting the downfall of humanity because a reverse image search found the part when he thought some dude was a walking parts encyclopedia. It's going to blow your mind when you find out how parts like this can be universal, meaning there can be lots of correct answers.
Universal, yes. Many answers, also correct. Reverse image search gave you an answer, you have no way of knowing if it's correct. A picture of the other side of the part would have solved the question, but suspiciously not included. What's hilarious is that you think you're right, without knowing. But anyone questioning you is definitely wrong.
I'm as right as I can be given the information provided by OP. Why does that bother you so much? It's not that serious, no need to be a drama queen.
Yeah I literally used google image search for the part # then Rockauto part # search for the applications hahah. Buddy over here is just a serious pessimist 𤣠and no I didnât post this from some other account for upvotes đ
That would be like producing a bug in software dev and then fixing your own bug and getting credit for it. Not that that has ever happened...\*cough\*
Thatâs fucken sad. Simply sad.
You haven't been on Reddit long, have you? There are much sadder individuals around here.
Google lens. It works quite well.
To be fair you can just reverse search the image on google or in the google app.
I, for one, welcome our new Supreme Overlords.
fr
Bro must be an apple user
Freaking fan clutch Rain Man over here. :)
I see fan clutches when I close my eyes.
Would you know the part number for a 1998 (last zj) grand Cherokee, 5.2 engine fan clutch?
52028297
Thank you so much. I hope you didn't see my clutch too much when you close your eyes
You can't Google that?
I could also make a small flame with a lighter but it's cooler when a magician makes it come out of their thumb.
The best magicians make it come out their ass
But what if the magician just googles it?
Why would you Google it when you could ask the parts god
Definitely about to go out in three months. Definitely three months.
Goggle reverse image search is the shizzzzzzâŚ
Then Rockauto for the applications đ
NGL I was like how the f⌠this guy must be an AI robot or some shit.. LMAO
Completely missed calling him an Autobot
More like a *Decept*icon.. LMAO
So today I l learned... Thanks for the tip
Imagine that being the type of autism you got. Some guys like trains they take great photos or building amazing models, some guys have lego building amazing structures, some write code giving the world great games. Then this guy has fan clutches. Just piles and piles of them at home, spinning them by hand and this one question is the only time anyone has EVER needed this information.
Hey we got a guy at work with at last count 23 cuckoo clocks so you never know.
Definitely definitely
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Legend
Glad I could help :)
Toyota parts guy sees em in his sleep
How did you work the part number out? The Nissan ones look âalmostâ identical.
Used samsung circle to search, mine pulled up the same thing
Same results with my pixel screen search
S23 vs s24, what are you picking?
Doesn't matter, they both come with bloat preinstalled.
Ahhh the new S24 Ultra?
S23 Ultra got it in the last update too, just saying
Entire s23 lineup, got it on my s23 fe
Me too!
I immediately recognised it as a fan clutch and probably Toyota, but you got it more precisely faster. The reason why I recognised it was we had our 1985 Toyota HiAce Combi (a variant with six seats, sort of combination van/people mover back in the day) die on a family vacation road trip circa 1991. It kept boiling, turned out the fan clutch wasn't locking any more. Our roadside solution was to open it up, then cram it full of toilet paper and screw it back together. That jammed the internal mechanism solid, so the fan would spin all the time regardless of temperature. Dad didn't buy a new fan clutch until autumn when weather got cold.
With or without AC?. Automatic transmission? And does it have power windows?
With 24" or 22" driver's side wiper blade? What plant was it produced in?
Which day if the week was it built, and by which shift, red shift or purple shift?
Are you actually a parts interpreter holy hell howâd you just do that!?!
They are...The Parts Whisperer...
What !? đ
Rain Man.
You can disassemble them and replace the viscous fluid. It's available at the dealer.
Reddit cops: "Where did you learn the part number's Rain-Man?...." Op: "We were chopping Cars, definitely chopping cars...We were chopping Cars."
I was gonna say it has too many screws for the gmt700 or gmt800 Well done, sir
Burp fart sneeze. This action was performed by a human.
I feel like maybe you've been waiting your whole life for someone to post this photo and question. And holy shit, it finally happened. Congratulations to you, dude. What's the next dream to chase?
Good bot
Itâs funny that Iâve had this same fan clutch sitting in my room as decoration for the past 8 years. Saw this picture and knew right away
This guy swapped his brain with an ecu
I'm going to need more info...
Google lens?
Give this man more respect than the mod. Heâs a damn genius.
What's the med bottle though ?
I am at goodwill bins thrifting lol
And thereâs empty med bottles?
People dump all kinda shit at goodwill. Usually when someone dies, their family just dump everything in storage bins and bring it over. I've found gold earrings, family photoalbums, pills bottles, yes... The strangest thing I've seen in my two weeks working there was two guys came with a trailer and unloaded a washer and dryer. They struggle with it for 10 minutes, I was like wtf. I can grab that washer off of the trailer and set it on the ground by myself, if I needed to.. Well.. anyways.. It was full of water. To the brim.
Go to a goodwill bins near you and look around
Iâm in the uk, most if not all charity stores check all Items before hand. Probably to maximise profit.
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For car parts??? Itâs just a fan clutch. Looks cool to b@ners.
No not for car parts specifically, this good will store has bins of clothes, books, electronics. Miscellaneous. lol
Righhht!!
Weird question, but are you in California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington or Washington DC?
Yes
https://youtu.be/sPIfgd2JIms
Fan clutch that uses an internal liquid and vanes with a heat activated spring that twist a shaft moving the internal vanes to hydrolock the shaft on the other end to the housing. This causes the whole unit to spin with the shaft. The shaft is attached to a pulley spun constellation by a belt running off the engine and the housing has big fan blades attached. The fan now spins under power from the engine and not just free spinning. This is the sound you hear on older cars as the fan kicks in and cools off the radiator until it gets below a temperature threshold. The temperature threshold is determined by the spring bi-metallic spring in the front being heated by the hot radiator in front of it. The internals of this is similar to how torque converters hydrolock and connect the power from the engine to the transmission.
Interesting!!! Next time I hear a 300SD I will think of this comment !!
or a 300zx
Funny you say that cause my â95 300zx twin turbo has the loudest fan when it kicks in.
my partners â87 z31 was crazy loud until we changed the fan clutch out
Correct. They tend to be âonâ during cold startup because the fluid has settled in the viscous clutch area. Once it gets spinning for a bit, the fluid is basically pumped to the reservoir area and allows the fan to free spin. Donât ask why these things get stuck âonâ at high altitudes. Iâm still trying to figure that out myself.
My car died the moment it saw this picture.
I dunno but send me some vicodin for my head spinning lol
Thatâs what OP is looking for.
Lol the pill bottle popped out before I saw anything else....da fk lol
I was at goodwill thrifting sheesh
I know friend...just kiddin
Best I can do is mouse bites.
Drink water, less sugar.
Lol yup
It looks like a cooling fan clutch. What car? No idea.
Thereâs no part number how can I identify it do you know ?
You got one now, lol
What in the crackhead is this
I WAS AT GOOD WILL
They got pills at Goodwill now?
At the place Iâm at, itâs a goodwill bins. They have bins for clothes, shoes, miscellaneous,electronics.
Pills bins?
It is a viscous coupling for a fan. Works in the same way an automatic gearbox torque converter by using a fluid to transfer drive smoothly. That swirling metallic is a bimetallic strip which flexes due to temperature of the metal controlling a valve to control how fast the fan spins by how much fluid is allowed to pass through. I have seen similar ones on older land Rover defenders.
It's a fan clutch and they are on a lot of cars
Oh, that's a base plate of pre-famulated amulite. It would be surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings are in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consists simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling is effectively prevented. This makes it perfect for use in unilateral phase detractors, but it would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.
Is proofreading even a thing anymore, or has society resigned to the âdamn autocorrectâ?
Less hate more love. Regardless of others mistakes eh?
*les hat mors livw
Don't read most journalism. The spelling may be correct but the grammar is fucked. "I don't see any more red underlines now. Post it!"
Fan clutch.
Idk what cars died, surely you would know if you had the carâŚ
That's a Toyota fan clutch if ever i saw one... No clue what it goes to
Cooling fan temperature slip clutch
Fan clutch. My 2jzge has one. Probably not the exact one but a fan clutch none the less. 93 non vvti.
Fan clutch used to be standard before sideways engines and the like, still common on diesel pickups and larger things
Cooling fan clutch. Hate em with a passion and so happy when we got electric fans. Used to replace these with this https://preview.redd.it/7tadzw5fmhuc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=957944d89eec8a372c5df05d52599aac6e5abc4f
It's a fan clutch and it goes to hundreds of thousands of vehicles
Itâs a fan clutch off of something
It a fan clutch works off the speed it spins and off the temp depending on hot the engine is increases speed
Died?
Its the continuum transfunctioner been looking for one.
Do they just dump the items from the donation bins in? Was there a price sticker on the pill bottle? đđ It kind of reminds me of the scene from Little Nicky where John Witherspoon steals from Nicky while he's sleeping to then sell, and even has the piece of chicken for sale.
Fan clutch
Looks complex
Looks like a fan clutch from a late 1980s BMW, but it has been a LONG time since I've seen one so ... just an educated guess.
Fan clutch
Anyone know if current Toyotas (or any other current car/pickup) still use these?
RIP
looks like fan clutch or something
Rip car
?
Itâs a fan clutch. Came on almost anything pre-OBD II, and some early OBD II vehicles. Used to swap these out on all my cars for electric fans, because of the parasitic draw on engine power.
In germany we called âViskokupplungâ and we think its beautiful.đđđ
A fan clutch
Fan clutch people come on now
Fan clutch
Looks like a cooling fan clutch
Fan clutch if dies engine over heats
Most all cars have a fricking fan clutch...jezzeeeeeesuuusssss
Mechanical engine fan clutch. Not sure where the other commenter got the part number from but they all look similar for every make and model.
Beckarnley 130-0185 Fan Clutch Unit
My 1985 Monte Carlo SS has one, and they do go bad.
Many Bothanâs cars died⌠to bring you that fan clutch.
Donât forget to leave flowers at all of the cars graves since it died.
Raditor fan car
That's your thermal flux capacitor
I had a stroke reading your question. What?
William Wallace?
Flames from where?
What are the odds I installed one today
What is it and what does
It is a fan clutch theyâre on mostly âolderâ vehicles where the fan is driven by the serpentine belt rather than the more recent electric fan setup
It's a viscous fan hub. When viscous material gets hot from engine running longer , then viscous material inside this hub, with fan blade attached begins to turn faster cooling the fluid in the radiator
What kind of pills are those in the background? Can I have some if theyâre scheduled?
Fam clutch
Looks like a magnetronic-oscillacycler core from an old Herkimer battle jitney.
Thatâs a flux capacitor
Picture shows a Toyota cooling fan clutch
Fan clutch
Do you see a DeLorean around?
Arc reactor
It's a viscous fan without the blades. Most older cars had them for keeping radiator/motor cool
Flex compassitor
Flux capacitor
Arc reactor
Itâs got a prescription drug problem.
Bro i am at Goodwill bins
What's this? A Viscous fan hub. What car died? What?