What the hell . .My fan just took a crap On me . . i was driving and noticed my temps were crazy so i pulled over popped the hood and the fan was smoking . . . coolant was boiling like crazy filling the over flow tank its probably leaking out by now i left my Car in the parking lot in my mom s Car on my phone just ranting i am so sacred i have a blown head gasket it got hot as **** so do i need a whole new fan or just motor hope someone gets back to me
wtf ..all these problems
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I heard a bad relay could start a small fire, but then again that's what the dealership guy said. Regardless, Ford should be covering any damage if it pertains to that relay.
BlackVert
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mine burned up 2 summers ago, almost to the day. there is a recall for it. i'll see if i can find my thread about it ... here it is
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=487842
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=487842
BlackVert said:
Awesome
Edit- the dealership and the site both said I have no recalls?
Yeah, so I'm really confused.
I should definetally have that recall- I mean that is the exact problem that happened with my car. Motor is seized, it was smoking, yet my VIN 1FALP45T2SF210916
turns up no recalls on the site or on the phone.
Anyone know whats going on?
BlackVert
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that doesn't sound right, i'd call another dealership and act dumb just to see if they say the same thing.Synned said:
BlackVert said:
First thing I did was call a dealership, they said there was no recalls.
Because of you guys telling me that there was, I called ford recall center.
She said it wasnt exactly a recall but more like an extended customer service thing.
I'm going to go check if anything melted inside the fan or if it was just the motor, because autozone has the motor in stock.
AFAIK, there are no limits on recalls (if the fan thing was a indeed a recall and not a TSB).
Do you know how hot you got? I dont see alum heads in your sig - that helps since iron can take a little extra heat.
To deal with the fan, you'll have to see if it was coming on at all. If it wasnt, see if the CCRM was telling it to come on but the fan itself was too resistive (I think this is the case - just a guess).
You can get a new fan motor from AZ for about 80 bucks. Or just get a different fan. If you have pulley space, a Mark 8 fan is great. A Taurus 3.8L fan would work well too (it's the same motor as the Mark 8 but with a different fan blade, as I recall).
If it wasnt the fan but the CCRM, etc: I just got done posting this on Eric's thread, but if you're fed up with the stock fan control (I know you're ready to shoot the CCRM), check out DcControl.com. I run the FK35 on the 94 and it's amazing!
Best of luck bud.
Do you know how hot you got? I dont see alum heads in your sig - that helps since iron can take a little extra heat.
To deal with the fan, you'll have to see if it was coming on at all. If it wasnt, see if the CCRM was telling it to come on but the fan itself was too resistive (I think this is the case - just a guess).
You can get a new fan motor from AZ for about 80 bucks. Or just get a different fan. If you have pulley space, a Mark 8 fan is great. A Taurus 3.8L fan would work well too (it's the same motor as the Mark 8 but with a different fan blade, as I recall).
If it wasnt the fan but the CCRM, etc: I just got done posting this on Eric's thread, but if you're fed up with the stock fan control (I know you're ready to shoot the CCRM), check out DcControl.com. I run the FK35 on the 94 and it's amazing!
Best of luck bud.
BlackVert
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i had a really hard time taking the fan off the motor. the plastic broke and i would not have been able to put it on a new motor if i had gotten one.
this was before i realized about the recall
this was before i realized about the recall
Yeah, well the recall wasn't exactly a "recall" the lady said. I called ford recall center because I was really confused why the recall didn't show up when I entered my VIN.
The lady told me that it wasn't a "recall" I forget exactly what she called it but she said it expires 8 years or 100,000 miles after the car was released.
Why was the motor difficult to remove from the fan? I'd way rather just replace just the motor than the whole assembly.
Here is something I forgot to mention.
Yesterday I heard a weird noise coming from the engine, so I popped the hood and it did sound like it was coming from the fan, however I just thought it was rubbing against something so I left it for later.
I know that the motor is definetally shot, it seized. I cannot move the fan by hand. I saw smoke coming out of themotor, it was about to catch fire when I checked.
The lady told me that it wasn't a "recall" I forget exactly what she called it but she said it expires 8 years or 100,000 miles after the car was released.
Why was the motor difficult to remove from the fan? I'd way rather just replace just the motor than the whole assembly.
Here is something I forgot to mention.
Yesterday I heard a weird noise coming from the engine, so I popped the hood and it did sound like it was coming from the fan, however I just thought it was rubbing against something so I left it for later.
I know that the motor is definetally shot, it seized. I cannot move the fan by hand. I saw smoke coming out of themotor, it was about to catch fire when I checked.
BlackVert
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i couldn't the the fan off the shaft of the motor. it was stuck on there. i probably could have been more patient or tried more wd-40 on it though.
My car reached the boiling point RIGHT AFTER I put my #$%^ing new aluminum heads on, Coolant temp sensor just HAPPENED to die after I did all that new engine work. Of all the times for it to go out!!! Thk God it did not blow a HG. It can get hot, smoke and boil out and sometimes you are still ok!
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