I am planning on building an engine test stand and was wondering if anyone had any advice on what they would do to make their stand more functional.

My buddy built one out of 2" square tubing and just used extra parts he had laying around to make it work.

Today i scavenged up a radiator from a 7.3L powerstroke that was over heating cause it had a hole by one of the tanks on it and it had so much mud and clay caked up in the fins that it wasnt cooling the customer decided to get a new radiator. So on my lunch brake i drug the radiator out of the scrap pile and welded the hole up and ran a the tail of a zip tie through every fin. Now a have a very large radiator for my engine test stand. I also got an electric fan from an 04' lincoln town car with a broken fan. Easy fix for me cause there is a plastic ring that connects all the fan blades at their outer edge and it was cracked. When the fan started turning fast enough the centrifugal foce would push the cracked part out and catch against the fan shroud and stop the fan. So i pulled the fan out of the scrap pile and used some extra JB weld and welded the crack.

I just got done testing the fan after work and the jb held the fan together, and i pressure tested the radiator.

Just wanted to see if anyone had any good ideas.