Howdy All,
Has anyone replaced their 94-95 rad fan motor with one from the common parts houses (autozone, advance auto, etc)? Will probably try one but wanted to get some input on this.
The background info:
For a couple months I've been very sporadically fiddling with the fan in my chameleon car. The temp would always run past the middle of the gauge but then one day it started going way past the middle and close to the red. When near the red the fan would kick in and the gauge would go back to the middle (probably high speed). I presumed it may have been a quirk with the OEM temp settings so decided to try a thermostatic relay to kick the low speed on sooner. That didn't work so I figured...hell I'll just run the fan on at all times to try it out. Well that didn't work either...the car would still run hot even after the low speed was wired on at all times. So I suspect the fan is just not pushing enough air. My plan was to borrow the fan from my teal car (which was working perfectly) just to test and confirm that the fan in the chameleon was toast.
Fast forward to this weekend...I'm driving the teal car and it starts getting hotter than normal. It gets progressively worse until today where the car got so hot that coolant was overflowing from the bottle. After a quick inspection the fan blades seem to be wobbly so I guess the fan is toast too. I'm planning to check things out this weekend.
I don't really recall this happening on any of my 89-93 cars so I'm wondering if the 94-95 fans are prone to failure? I find it quite strange that both 94 & 95 fans would fail me at relatively close times.
Any input greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Has anyone replaced their 94-95 rad fan motor with one from the common parts houses (autozone, advance auto, etc)? Will probably try one but wanted to get some input on this.
The background info:
For a couple months I've been very sporadically fiddling with the fan in my chameleon car. The temp would always run past the middle of the gauge but then one day it started going way past the middle and close to the red. When near the red the fan would kick in and the gauge would go back to the middle (probably high speed). I presumed it may have been a quirk with the OEM temp settings so decided to try a thermostatic relay to kick the low speed on sooner. That didn't work so I figured...hell I'll just run the fan on at all times to try it out. Well that didn't work either...the car would still run hot even after the low speed was wired on at all times. So I suspect the fan is just not pushing enough air. My plan was to borrow the fan from my teal car (which was working perfectly) just to test and confirm that the fan in the chameleon was toast.
Fast forward to this weekend...I'm driving the teal car and it starts getting hotter than normal. It gets progressively worse until today where the car got so hot that coolant was overflowing from the bottle. After a quick inspection the fan blades seem to be wobbly so I guess the fan is toast too. I'm planning to check things out this weekend.
I don't really recall this happening on any of my 89-93 cars so I'm wondering if the 94-95 fans are prone to failure? I find it quite strange that both 94 & 95 fans would fail me at relatively close times.
Any input greatly appreciated.
Thanks!