The radiator fan fuse keeps blowing on my 92 si. I have a c&r radiator w/ spal fan.

I checked the fan by connecting the fan directly to the battery and it works fine. What do i check out next??

fan switch??

 

I have the same radiator in my 94 but have never blown a fuse. I do have a Mugen fan switch although I have no idea if that has anything to do with it. You might have to wire up a seperate relay for the fan... or maybe the your stock relay took a crap.

 

youve probly got a short somwhere before the fan, check no bare wires touch the body of the car where the fan is wired

 

i have the same problem. just got my motor dropped in and i have some overheating problems. i replaced the fuse when i saw it was blown and the new one was blown within a few minutes.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by @ries &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have the same radiator in my 94 but have never blown a fuse. I do have a Mugen fan switch although I have no idea if that has anything to do with it. You might have to wire up a seperate relay for the fan... or maybe the your stock relay took a crap.</TD></TR></TABLE>

do you happen to know the part number of the fan that you have?? Its on the motor part of the fan.

i did some research on the fan i have and I think they gave me the wrong fan..the one i have is the 13" push
va13-ap6-63s. and that one pulls like 18 amps. no wonder why my 15 amp fuse keeps blowing.

i need the middle puller fan in this pdf...the one that pulls like 10 amps.

I'm going to call spal or c&r and see if i can get this switched.

http://www.spal-usa.com/pdfs/13Fans.pdf

 

mine came with the va13-ap9/c-35a. the one at the very bottom that pulls just under 7A.

 

yup... my part # is VA13-AP9/C.35A also.

 

hey thanks guys...that confirms that i defintely got the wrong one.

and for blufke...have you checked your cooling fan relay yet?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LudEcrous &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hey thanks guys...that confirms that i defintely got the wrong one.

and for blufke...have you checked your cooling fan relay yet?</TD></TR></TABLE>

nope. i need to do that.

 

If you keep blowing the fuse, then you have a short to ground after the fuse.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bigchevy66 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If you keep blowing the fuse, then you have a short to ground after the fuse.</TD></TR></TABLE>

not necessarily, but thats a very good possibility. the reason mine was blowing and the fan not turning is because it couldnt turn. i found this out today when i was snooping around and just applying voltage to the fan pins themselves and it wouldnt go. i noticed about 5 blades broken off of the fan and one wedged underneath a piece of alum. on the radiator so that it couldnt turn. since it wasnt turning, it is stalled and when a dc motor has V applied but is stalled it draws much higher current than when its actually operating. more than likely thats why my fuses were blowing. the end of my story(glad i found the overheating problem ) is that i need a new fan .


Modified by blufke at 10:31 PM 4/19/2004