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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: Smokey Eddy on April 18, 2010, 12:45:42 pm

Title: How can I test my fan?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on April 18, 2010, 12:45:42 pm

I'm not sure my fan i put into the car actually turns on. I know that it works and hot damn does it ever push a lot of air.

How do i test to see that the system is working properly to trip the fan on?
I've left the car running for ages before and it never came on...
didn't even get close to over heating though sooo?
and when the needle has risen from things like belts breaking the fan didn't come on either (because the head was hot and the thermo switch at the bottom on the rad was not)

Title: Re: How can I test my fan?
Post by: truckinwagen on April 18, 2010, 12:52:52 pm

drive hard, and I mean really hard, get the temp to come up(beyond what you see normally) and pop the hood.

idling my car wont get very hot either...

Title: Re: How can I test my fan?
Post by: Smokey Eddy on April 19, 2010, 12:48:12 am

okay! :D thanks i'll try jumping the pins in the switch. and just so we're on the same page, i find this switch at the bottom of the rad near the .... battery