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Author just wired up a switch to my fan
L30 SCT
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9th Sep 06 at 14:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
my car was over heating when sitting in traffic so wired up a switch.

i wired it up straight to the connector at the fan. am i ok to do that as it comes on at some speed now. i am scared that its going to burn the motor out.

has anyone else done this?
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If it was overheating, shouldn't you have sorted that problem out? i.e. new CTS/thermostat or something?
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
If it was overheating, shouldn't you have sorted that problem out? i.e. new CTS/thermostat or something?


by putting the fan on a switch that is solving the problem. the top end is getting rebuilt on 24th which will also help.
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I have done this to mine - especially in traffic jams the fan is on for half hour + if its a bad jam like on the motorway - the only prob i found is the wire gets red hot
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did you take the feed straight from the battery to a switch then to the fan?
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quote:
Originally posted by L30 SCT
quote:
Originally posted by Sam
If it was overheating, shouldn't you have sorted that problem out? i.e. new CTS/thermostat or something?


by putting the fan on a switch that is solving the problem. the top end is getting rebuilt on 24th which will also help.




Is it not solving the effect rather than the cause?

Ainsley
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quote:
Originally posted by ainsley_brader
quote:
Originally posted by L30 SCT
quote:
Originally posted by Sam
If it was overheating, shouldn't you have sorted that problem out? i.e. new CTS/thermostat or something?


by putting the fan on a switch that is solving the problem. the top end is getting rebuilt on 24th which will also help.




Is it not solving the effect rather than the cause?

Ainsley


all corsa's overheat when sitting in traffic. by puting the fan on a switch i can turn it on before the car reaches 98 degrees.
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quote:
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by putting the fan on a switch that is solving the problem. the top end is getting rebuilt on 24th which will also help.


What Sam ment is surely you sould be sorting out the reason it's over heating (solving the problem). not putting a "fix" in place by putting a switch on the fan.

Change the thermostat etc when rebuliding the top end.
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quote:
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did you take the feed straight from the battery to a switch then to the fan?


if you have done this then please go and remove it now..

the correct way to bypass the fan switch in the rad, is to bridge the two wires to it.. ie cut the two wires to the fan switch on the rad, take the two ends and wire a switch in between them (extend the wiring to inside the car) then also rejoin the wiring to the switch in the rad this allow the fan to come on automatically also
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well thats what i was going to do but it said in another post that a feed can be taken straight from the battery.

will sort it later.
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quote:
Originally posted by L30 SCT
all corsa's overheat when sitting in traffic. by puting the fan on a switch i can turn it on before the car reaches 98 degrees.


Mine doesnt overheat it sits there until the fan comes in like its supposed to then when its cooled down a bit the fan goes off etc
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yeah mine come on the cools it down a bit, but dont like the temp going up to 98 every time i sit in traffic.
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Isn't that normal?
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ive done it too but since i done away with the air con when i changed the engine i just wired it up to the air con switch. nice touch i thought lol
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9th Sep 06 at 15:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
might just ditch the switch as i cant be assed with the bother.
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no seriously man its needed. well i use mine all the time anyway. for the likes of cruising round glasgoe city centre or traffic jams an stuff
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quote:
Originally posted by L30 SCT
did you take the feed straight from the battery to a switch then to the fan?
just straight from the fan to a switch which makes the circuit complete making the fan work all the time
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quote:
Originally posted by boyracer2002
quote:
Originally posted by L30 SCT
did you take the feed straight from the battery to a switch then to the fan?
just straight from the fan to a switch which makes the circuit complete making the fan work all the time


same as mine then. except mine through the A/C switch
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24/7 fan cooled corsa sounds like a waste of power lol i have no problems with this and i change the switches in the radiator to suit, ive got ones that come in at 80-90-100 and a big ass fan tooooo

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i've done this on my valver nova...
as soon as i hit traffic, i flick the fan on, car never now goes above 1/4 temp..
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quote:
Originally posted by ajscorsa
ive done it too but since i done away with the air con when i changed the engine i just wired it up to the air con switch. nice touch i thought lol


damn you, i've got an aircon heater control panel from a scrappy purely for this purpose, to use the aircon switch for the fan, hoping it would be something different and not done before
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lol its cool, wee light comes on too lol
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i have run two cables from the switch to the connector on the radiator, i then cut one cable at a time putting both parts of the cable cut and one of the cables from the switch into a connector. then the same for the second cable on the radiator connector
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u get kool running water from demon tweeks to put in ur header tank and that helps alot. thats what iv got in my nova its isnt that pricie ithere.

[Edited on 09-09-2006 by mitsu]
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My fan turns itself on when it needs to

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