I just finished this install this weekend. It went fairly smoothly other than figuring out how to Tetris the new shroud in. Once I figured that out, I took it out and reinstalled several times for a mental picture. I also did write myself notes in my cheat sheet for future use. Quite simply it was shift the passenger side of the shroud at a diagonal, in order to clear the lower mount past the lower radiator hose. Then wiggle as needed to get the driver's side mounts past the upper radiator hose, lightly persuade into lower bracket mounts and done. Fan/Clutch assembly already installed and torqued down. I had to buy the Lisle water pump spanner. It's the spanner that has two stands off for slipping into the holes of the water pump pulley. It cost about $24 dollars at Advance Auto. Figured might as well keep it. I did consider repackaging it and returning it, but ehh it will save me a trip in the future should I need to replace the fan clutch. Also I was unable to pull out the plastic body push pins without destroying them. There are four on top and three on the bottom. Luckily I had plenty to spare from bedlining the interior project. I destroyed many of those pulling out all the interior side plastics.

Here is my parts list for my 2007 manual transmission 3.8L JK.

1. Fan Shroud P/N 55057123AB $86.44 (Same part as Ron's)
2. Fan P/N 52079654AE $66.71 (Same part as Ron's)
3. Fan Clutch P/N 216030 $47.99 (Carquest P/N that I bought from Advance Auto. With online ordering and a $5 off coupon my final price was $32.99) (Torque to 37ft lbs, but I did not have a 1 7/16" crow's foot to correctly torque, so German torque prevailed "Guten tite")
4. Fan Clutch Bolts $0.38 (I had to special order these grade 8 bolts from Home Depot's website. They are 5/16", 18TPI, 5/8” length quantity of 4)(Torque to 210in lbs)

So far the JK is running great! This fan really throws some air around the engine bay. I stowed the electrical fan connector out of the way. I may someday do as Ron did with the additional electric fan, but for now I want to get a baseline temperature analysis with my Blue Driver.

If I understood the back and forth on another JK forum, I should be able to order just the smaller electric fan shroud and re-use my electric fan. So far I've not been successful in coming up with a part number just for the smaller shroud. If and when I do track down this elusive P/N I will update the thread.

Thanks again Ron for this write up!

JDapp after a little bit of research it looks like the 3.6 engine uses the same part number water pump that the 3.8 engine uses. If you snap a photo of the water pump or just check and see that it has the big fine threaded spindle sticking out, I would gamble you can buy the same fan clutch. Please research throughly before plunking down your hard earned money.

Derp. Thanks for pointing that out Ron. I could have sworn it listed the same water pump part number that’s listed for the 3.8L

Ron has far better understanding of the Jeep than I do.