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Old 07-13-2006, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Of course the temp will drop if the aux fans come on, they move a lot of air!

But you are barking up the wrong tree with that one, they don't do anything until 105C. If you are by passing the switch to make the fans run all of the time, you will burn them out. Also this is a band aid at best over the real problem.


Under normal driving the temp should stay between 80C-90C, and the aux fans should never come on. Unless you have the AC on of course, even then they seem to cycle.
Hatterasguy, you're correct. The fan only turns on when the coolant temperature rises above a certain point. In my case 100 degrees. I ran the fan constantly by grounding out the switch as a short term fix until I could change the switch.

The switch appears to have solved my problem. I'm still not sure if the fan is suppose to run whenever the AC is on, or just when the coolant temp rises above 100 degrees.
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