Re: Electric fans on your Dak (2.5L to the rescue!)

From: jim miller (jmiller@eramp.net)
Date: Tue Jun 02 1998 - 14:28:49 EDT


svieth@ameritech.net wrote:

> I was reading the factory service manual really late last night
> to find the location of the coolant temperature sensor when I
> stumbled across the wiring diagrams for the *electric cooling
> fan* on the 2.5l Dakota.
>
> Old Mother Mopawr may have sent us all the wiring to put
> a fan in our 5.2l trucks, it's just not being used right now.
>
> I'll read the service manual again tonight and then look at the truck
> to see if the fan wiring and such is really there.
>
> The computer already knows how to turn an electric fan on and off
> at certain speeds, certain temps and when the A/C is engaged. No
> monkeying around with installing additional temperature sensors,
> more relays and additional wiring.
>

Warning, the factory fan sensors turn the fan on at 210 deg or higher.
some as high as 240 deg and we want our daks to run about 180.



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