Sitting in the garage sipping coffee with cream from my Fitzee's Fabrications mug watching how to make a fan shroud, what a nice sunday morning. :-) Happy easter everybody!
Sat in my truck in a ‘foreign land’ watching Fitzee make stuff (just drinking water though) beautiful day here in England it’s pretty good..don’t have a Futzee mug though 🤔🚛
So I spent almost 24min watching a man basically bend a piece of aluminum... And I loved every second of it! All your videos are great material. I especially like the whole "basic tools"-concept, no fancy $2000 TIG welder, no plasma table, no hydraulic pipe bender etc etc.. Just some grinding, a hammer, a (homemade)break, and a MIG welder. With all the videos circulating on youtube its so easy to get blinded with "you need fancy expensive tools to do this, period!", and yet here you are, proving that NO - you dont NEED that, it is possible to get excellent result with a bit of manual labor and smart thinking. Im currently trying to get my thick skull to think on the work in sections, rather than the whole thing at once. Cant say its working fully yet though, but I'll get there... eventually :P
Those little holes drilled to stop the corners rising...me likely... me likely a lot. Learn something new everytime I watch you Fitzee. Need an I Beam.... need to make a Tube anvil.... I’ll be sticking around!
I wish there was a way to give a like for every time I watch the same video. I rewatch these every time I go to work on the same project and pick up something I missed before. Thanks for showing how you do things. Makes working on these cars so much easier.
I now have an urge to go and make a fan shroud. I've no need for one in my life and I'm sure the wife won't appreciate it, but I now feel I need to make one!
Hello Sir, just wanted to say thanks for this video. I was able to use your methods. I used a small HF brake that I had and did some hammer forming on some 18g steel to fab up a fan shroud for my 51 Flatfender. I appreciate your videos!
Thanks for all the tips Fitz. I picked up a perfect length of i-beam a few months ago and what a joy it is to use. I would have never tried fab’ing up stuff like this before seeing your ingenious tutorials. 👍👍😎👍👍
Another great lessen by the Master! Here is what I do with all Fitzee's videos. I think of four legs of a chair. I watch, listen, take notes, then make a fabrication list, such as, what tools are needed to make a rolled edge and of course practice. My notebook is filling up. Thank you Fitzee!!
Wow Fitzee, such a great video! Great metal work, great simple presentation of how to do it, and so practical. I am thankful that you are taking the time and effort to share this content. It is helpful for those who are able to do it to see it presented so well, and for those that are probably willing to try it having after seeing it demonstrated, and for those that really have no idea how things are made or may not even thought about being able to make things with their hands, they now have a teacher.
Thanks Fitzee for walking through this fab project. It makes it very clear on how to fab a shroud up , when you explain & demonstrate it. Thank you again. STAY REAL.
At lunch today I built a test piece for a fan shroud just like the one you built and I appreciate the effort you put into it with all the hammering that took place. Sometimes old school ideas work well
Good idea using a straight edge for a guide.I really appreciate all the tips you give us in your videos. I have learned more about metal working using simple techniques in your videos than i had ever learned in the auto body classes that I have taken. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, very educational.
Another awesome video this will come in very handy since I’m going to be Ls swapping my Tahoe and will be using electric fans , that aluminum shroud looks way better than the plastic ones
I installed mine a couple weeks ago when you mentioned put something between the shroud and radiator I did also using a discarded bicycle inner tube cut about 1/4" wide..seems strong enough to do the trick. Also cut 3" lengths of 5/8" heater hose set side by side for the bottom radiator to sit on..set in place with silicone caulk. Then..removed the obvious magnetic spare key box and taped key there with HD gorilla duct tape much safer.
Thank you very much Fitzee. I will definitely start looking for some scrap pieces of steel to make a brake and bending block material, should last forever.
Really nice job as always Fitzee! A lot of strength will be lost when the holes are cut into it, they can always have a flange added though. It did make me cringe some when you were cutting the aluminum sheet with a grinder without using a respirator... Aluminum dust = bad for lungs! This is exactly the job I'm in the middle of right now for my old 7.3 IDI diesel. I'm using 0.3125 aluminum so it will be welded rather than bent and since I am using a single 16" fan I'll put a 1 1/2" dome into the shroud face for better air flow.
Great work mate, I was going to do this for the wife's impala. Just measured the radiator and ordered a nice alloy baking sheet from eBay, cut a few slots and made some tabs to bolt it on. Very strong, has a wire insert around it. Everyone thinks I did a nice job until I tell them what it is. Ha,ha,
"I likes to cut it with a grinder!" Nah Surely Not Fitzee :D Awesome my friend I used your techniques to help a friend out with a very rusty Shogun / Pajero rear wheel inner arches and got some good results Thank You for sharing
Thank you again for a great informative project video. I also will be making a fan shroud soon. This helps so much. Can't wait for the next corolla project video.
Great video as always. I have made several of these and will adopt your idea for the next one. Picking up on a couple of points, you are absolutely correct in your comments about shape and bends providing strength. Just look at your I beam, the reason its an I section is that all of the strength is in the material / shape. A solid block would not have any more strength but would weigh considerably more. The thing I always do when drilling small holes in corners of bends is to drill the hole and de-burr it before cutting out the waste, its so much easier.
Cool job on that shroud I thought it'd be a lot harder you make it look simple I'm gonna try 11 I just bought a bigger radiator and I wanna put a shroud with 2 fans on itwo fans on it sure appreciate the video I always enjoy them thank you
Thanks so much for all the wisdom and experience, Fitzee!! This weekend I am doing the floor plans in my ‘66GTO, following your guidance from a previous video. You are inspirational AND educational. Keep up the great work!
Very nice work, Sir. Yes, you are correct about the fabrication improving the strength without weight gain. Compare a Hydroformed Unibody panel to an actual full frame- the Unibody, seamed adhesive & sealer, is just as strong as a framed car, at 1/2 the weight, and much safer with "crumple zones" to take the damage in a collision. Much easier to repair, too.
That is annealed/ softened or a non- heat treated aluminum. Most Al is so brittle that you can’t bend it without cracking or breaking it. Great work, as always, Fitzee. Thx
I had wondered how to bend sheet metal, then I saw Fitzee's video on the pipe anvil. I had extra odd pieces of pipe doing nothing but taking up space in the shop. The next day I had a pipe anvil and have already used it a few times. The information that one learns from watching Fitzee's videos is amazing.
