I have an '85 GL dual-range 4wd carbed wagon and will be driving from Kansas to Salt Lake City here in a week or so. I'll be on my way back to school, so I'll have the thing pretty well loaded with supplies, my tools, a couple plants, bikes, etc. In looking through various repair manuals, I've seen diagrams of the belts and pulleys that show a belt-driven fan mounted to the engine, but only on the 4wd models. Mine doesn't have one, although it does have the electric fan on the radiator. The engine was replaced before I got it, so if the fan ever was there, it might just not have made it on to the new engine. Basically, my question is, as I will be doing a lot of mountain climbing in a heavily-laden 20-year old Soob, should I look into installing another electric fan in the thing? And should it be on all the time or connected to the same thermostatic switch as the existing one? Or by a switch on the dashboard? I should also mention that I'm rebuilding the engine as we speak, and that when I was driving it before the engine went to pot, it would run a bit warm in the mountains. It never had a problem here on the Great Plains. Thanks
Ray