I believe I worked out my electric fan issue. Turns out I remembered the wires on the electric fan harness incorrectly. I'm using a Ford 2 speed fan. I assumed that solid black was ground....when in fact Ford chose the ONLY wire that is something other than black to be the ground. For the record, blue on the Ford efan is ground.
My new problem with the fan is this. I had my TMIC bracket lying on top of the A/C and P/S bracket while messing with my oil filter. It fell off and ended up hitting the positive terminal of my battery. Many sparks were had and it scared the shit out of me. I blew the inline fuse going to the efan. Now everytime I plug a new fuse in and plug the efan harness in that fuse blows. I tried disconnecting the battery negative and it kept blowing fuses. I disconnected neg and pos and it still blew fuses. At that point I ran out of fuses.
I've checked all the other fuses on the car and none are blown. My thinking is that I've got the the efan hooked up to high speed not low. IIRC on high speed that fan pulls like 40amps and my little mini inline holder only goes up to 30amp fuses.
When I originally wired in the efan I thought I was wiring in low speed and ground. I had the ground wire wrong. When I changed the ground to the correct wire I kept the power wire the same...which I'm betting is high.
After breakfast I'll be going to get a regular sized inline fuse holder so that I can go up to 40amps. BUT I'll also be moving it to the low speed. I simply hate having the efan as the only mini fuse in the car.
Here is how I wired in my efan..it's taken from a guide on 7club
I followed a modification of the diagram for manual switch to turn the fan on regardless of the temp switch. I'm wondering if the mod I followed is correct. It has a toggle switch wired inline between the thermoswitch and 86 on the relay. After following the mod it dawned on me that having the manual switch there may not actually turn the fan on. It would only allow the thermoswitch to do it's job IF temps rise to the point that it would normally turn on. IF that makes any sense?
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Originally Posted by yzf-r1
Take your pathetic ultimatums and stupid "AOL" comments and shove them straight up your ass, you little punk. You avatar is gay as well....
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1990 Vert/ S5-JDM 13BT (rebuilt but with issues I'm working out). Rtek N370 1.7, 550/800 injectors, FD fuel pump, RB REV TII exhaust, Tein springs and Illuminas