In my beater '95 hatch with a 15db8 (pretty sure) some kid before me wired the fan to a manual switch on the dash. The wiring is terrible on it, small gauge wire straight from battery to cheap-o switch to fan. In the summer I just made it a habit to turn the fan on when I got in and off when I got out. Now that it's getting cold I just leave it off and never has my temp gauge gotten above half way no matter how hard I drive. Would you guys trust the stock temp gauge or is it one of those things were by the time it's past it's normal position you're already hosed? I'm not against a mechanical temp gauge if I need one, I just do not want to be dealing with an over-heated motor in the middle of winter.

Thanks,
Chase

 

you should undo that switch and rewire it back to the coolant temperature sensor and let the car do the fan controlling

the car runs normally at about 190F and fan kicks on at 200F
I wouldn't trust that gauge overheat isn't to far away at that operating temperature

 

drive it till temperature comes to normal
then let it work in neutral and wait 5-6 min.

if the temperature gauge is still in the same place then u have a problem

 

When you say work it in neutral, do you mean just let it idle? I think what I'm going to do is wire the switch through an ignition wire, so it can only have power when the car is running, and run the fan power through a relay. On a side question: If an auxiliary light has small gauge pig tails on it, would it make any sense to run a larger gauge wire to the pig tail?

Thanks,
Chase

 

yes let it in idle for 5-6 mins the temperature should rise up

anyway the best solution is to rewire to factory settings