Making the fan 'fixed' will eat some power, not a lot, but some for
sure.

On some of them you can just use longer bolts on the fan and that jams
up the clutch so it all moves together.

As someone else mentioned, you could go electric as well and get rid of
the mechanical fan.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Zenteren wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have suzuki samurai 1.3 liter engine with viscous clutch cooling fan, it
> is wear out and cannot spin fan fast enough to cool the engine. I'm thinking
> to get out clutch system and make an adapter to connect pulley and fan
> directly to each other. My fan is connected to the water pump pulley.
> How will this modification work? Is it going to wear faster water pump
> bearings, and would my engine lost some power, if do what is the best
> solution to make it cooling better my engine???