Well i was sitting in the car with the a/c on full blast at school waiting to pick up my friend. i then notice my temp gauge was at 3/4 of the way on hot so i turn the car off. Usually the gauge is only at about half when it is fully warmed up. i wait about 2 hour and drove home the gauge never went past half so could this just be that i was sitting in the car with no air hitting the condensor and radiator or is there something more then that ie. water pump / stuck thermostat? I think i just have a bad fan or relay cause the car drove home 27 miles and the temp was fine the whole way.

any ideas?

 

probably just the fan or relay. when you have you ac on do both the fans run. if not they theres your problem

 

Been so long since ive had A/C in a ef but when i did I dont remember both fans comming on with the A/C

 

one of the fans is for the motor and that comes on at certian temps and the other fan automatically comes on when the a/c is turn on so which fan is which

 

unplug ur thermo fan swtich, place a jumper wire on the wiring harness connector and see if the fan comes on.

 

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The fan that is closest to the passanger side (Bigger one) Is your rad fan and the smaller one on driver side of the rad is the condensor fan

 

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place a jumper from the fan switch to battery right?

 

you can do that to just test the fan...but it may be the relay or wiring to the relay or wiring to the fan from the relay.

If you jump the connector for the thermo fan switch ur testing it all in one shot. relay, wiring and the fan. if the fan runs on this test but not while the thermo switch is connected then you have a bad thermo fan switch

if the fan doesnt run when you jump the thermo fan switch connector but the fan does run when you jump it to the battery it can be the relay or the wiring.

you can test the relay and wiring by continuity.

 

thanks where is the relay located anyways?

 

next to the ground juntion...passenger side...near the intake box...behind the head light....the two next to the radiator and battery are for the ac clutch and ac fan

 

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Are you talking about the fuse box under the hood on the passenger side?
didnn't know there were relays in there

 

well what happened to me was i took the heatshield off my headers and it melted the rad fan sensor,i just to it manually with a switch :thumbsup:

 

no not the fuse box..they are mounted to the frame.. right next to the airbox..behind the headlamp...ull see a small neutral colored case with black wires coming out of it.. the component sitting next it is the relay ( has a brown rubbery covering over it).
five wires coming out of it....two yellow/greens, one black,one black/yellow, and one blue