Fan Not operating, overheating problem

[johnnydeebee]

95 GT Had the recall done & circuit breaker installed. Fan still shuts down and engine overheating now...Any other ideas out there...

 

[1105]

95 GT Had the recall done & circuit breaker installed. Fan still shuts down and engine overheating now...Any other ideas out there...

there's your answer right there.. take that bitch out!. My car did the same thing, pulled that out and works fine. Give it a shot.

 

[BlackVert]

if the breaker keeps tripping, it probably means your fan is going. mine just went and luckily the recall had not been done yet, because they gave me a new fan.

other than that, i suspect the fan motor is going bad. you could try hooking the battery straight to the fan just to see if it turns.

 

[94TURBO5 O]

Just tap into the #17 pin and ground it to a toggle switch and run high speed manually. The directions are in the FAQ.

 

[squall9393]

My fan just died so I installed a Flex-a-Lite. Not much work, just a little ingenuity. Haven't figured out how to wire it into the ignition to get it to turn off when the car shuts off yet though. Geez, this baby is spinning well. Fan spins so fast that when I shut the car off people still think the engine is running. I give the fan 2 thumbs up.

 

[94TURBO5 O]

Got pics?

 

[squall9393]

Got pics?

Not at the moment but once I get em I'll start a new thread with the process and the results.

 

[Green_Meanie]

My fan just died so I installed a Flex-a-Lite. Not much work, just a little ingenuity. Haven't figured out how to wire it into the ignition to get it to turn off when the car shuts off yet though. Geez, this baby is spinning well. Fan spins so fast that when I shut the car off people still think the engine is running. I give the fan 2 thumbs up.

Mine is hooked into a 30 amp fuse in the passenger compartment fuse box. If I forget to turn off the switch, the ignition kills it when shut off.

 

[squall9393]

Mine is hooked into a 30 amp fuse in the passenger compartment fuse box. If I forget to turn off the switch, the ignition kills it when shut off.

Good idea. I never installed a cut off switch though. The fan has only drained the battery once after turning the engine off, but it was really freakin hot and I had been running it in traffic with the A/C going before then so obviously it took it a while to cool the engine down to where the fan would shut off. Thanks for the idea. I orginally put it where the old fan fuse was in engine fuse box but that was on constant power instead of switched.

Jarrod

 

[bjl95mustang]

I just went and got a oem replacment fan motor from auto zone for $60. It was a siemens s/p brand motor and I think with a lifetime waranty.

 

[chrismillion]

Just tap into the #17 pin and ground it to a toggle switch and run high speed manually. The directions are in the FAQ.

yeah, but it's complicated as hell. the directions need to be done over and simpler

 

[jasonlee0704]

The recall work (which I had done myself, too) does not fix the fan.

What it does is shut the fan off when it malfunctions, to prevent an engine fire.

You're still left with a non-working fan (great job, Ford!) - I'd get it replaced, instead of just bypassing the circuit breaker.

 

[BlackVert]

The recall work (which I had done myself, too) does not fix the fan.

What it does is shut the fan off when it malfunctions, to prevent an engine fire.

You're still left with a non-working fan (great job, Ford!) - I'd get it replaced, instead of just bypassing the circuit breaker.

if the fan is dead when the recall work is done, they will replace the fan at the same time. the recall specifically says that and that is what happened for me since the fan was dead when i brought it in. here is the recall:

http://www.recalldata.org/1995/3351.shtml

if you do have to replace the motor, be careful removing the old motor, it is a pain getting the fan blade off.

 

[95snoozer]

i need to hard wire my fan.....

i guess this question is for those who have done an aftermarket fan. can i cut the power and run the high and low off the batterry directly with just a toggle switch and relays to run the high speed and low speed completely manual even with the car off. I wont walk off and leave the fan on.

isnt this close to what is done for the A9L swap

 

[slvrbullit302]

Three months after I had the recall done on mine, the fan still locked up and I ended up having to replace the wiring from the CCRM to the fan. Ford would not cover the work.

Anyways when I installed the Fluidyne I also installed a helper fan/ track cool down fan. See pic below.....