T-bird Tim
Registered User
OK guys, another problem I need some advice on. This weekend my cooling fan went out. I bought a universal one from a local auto parts store. I reused the old shroud and mounted it back in there. The fan is the same size as the original. The one thing that I wasnt informed of when I bought the thing is that you have to wire it backwards to make it a puller fan instead of a pusher. The instructions on the box just said to flip the blades and it would pull. I did that and drove it about 12 miles. Obviously it overheated pretty bad. Almost 250 degrees to be exact. Well after calling around and getting some advice, I switced the wires and it finally worked the way it is supposed to. I wired it to where it would run as long as the key is on. My problem now is that it keeps getting up to about 240 degrees after normal driving. It runs fine, no miss at idle or speed. No water in the oil and no coolant leak. It never ran this hot before all of this. I am running a griffin radiator and the temp never got over 210 before this. Any ideas? I hate to think I have to do the headgaskets on another supercoupe. Any help would be greatly appreciated! By the way, its over 100 degrees here every day and I'm not running the a/c