Just filling in the rest of the story. I was able to ground out the fan in the friend's 82 - fan worked. Then we got my 84 hot enough to get the aux fan to kick in, then we swapped ice cube relays and got my fan to get on again so his relay was fine as well... so he has bigger A/C issues.

thanks everyone for all the help - LOVE THIS FORUM!!!

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As of 2/2010:
2001 CLK55 0o\=*=/o0
13.6 @ 106mph
10K mi
1984 300SD
260K mi and going and going...
97 S600
46K miles
1991 Sentra SE-R (extremely dorked with)
www.se-r.net