Usually, I like meeting fans...

I filled up my camera, so I had to dump all my pics onto the PC.  Looking through them, I realized I missed a Viper update.  One day it started making a horrible rattly grindy sound when I pulled into the driveway.  My immediately thought was a broken power steering pulley, since they're known to break.  It wasn't.  After some quick investigating, I discovered that the cooling fan wasn't spinning like it should.  After taking the fan out, here's what I found:

If you've never had a fan apart, there's supposed to be a pin in there connecting the shaft to the fan blades.  Here's what's left of said pin:

Apparently it had been loose or partially broken for awhile because it had worn the groove in the back of the fan hub pretty badly:

This looks like a job for...JB Weld!

Conveniently, I had some drill rod the right size on hand too so I made a solid pin instead of using a roll pin like the original unit.

Once the JB Weld set, I filed it out so the new pin was a snug fit.  Because of the length of the pin and the shape of the ribs, the pin is completely captured when the fan is installed.

That's all for now.