[Gromit]

One disadvantage of the stock fan setup (and advantage of the electric fans) is without that whole stock fan and clutch assembly being in the way you have more room to put a wrench on the crank pulley nut to turn the motor exactly onto top dead center on the #1 cylinder for adjusting valves and setting initial timing.

My personal opinion it is major pain to remove the fan and fan clutch just to get room to get a wrench in there to turn over the motor by hand in fine increments.

Those remote starter switch works for that too but they are no fun either; so I guess I just want to point out that the electric fans have at least this one other nice thing going for them to justify the expense.