After getting the seized fan diagnosis in SLC, I called ahead to Santa Fe BMW and had them order the part. So this morning on my way down to Socorro, I stopped in to pick it up. $200!! (I heard from someone that a fan kit for a KTM only costs about $80....oh well). Guess I should be used to the Beemer sticker shock by now.

Unfortunately, they didn't have time to put it in for me. So I pulled off in the shade to install it myself. It seems to be a pretty easy operation, but I couldn't see how to get the fan off without breaking the plastic(?!) tab holding it on. Since it wasn't a critical situation and I now at least had the hard-to-come-by part with me, I decided to wait until I was somewhere where a mechanic could do it in case something went wrong.

Besides, I watched the weather channel this morning, and they were expecting 40 to 50 mph winds in the area I was going through. And it was supposed to be worse traveling from north to south rather than east to west. Cross winds....great. So I wanted to get going before the wind picked up anymore than it did.