[Supras] A/C booster fans

[Jeff Mohler]

This isnta temp sensor issue, but something larger.   Thats pretty bad.

On 8/1/06, Eric Boeck <eboeck at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> Are those two little electric fans thermostatically controlled?  And do they
> run if the engine is hot but turned off?  I ask b/c with this heat wave
> going thru here, yesterday when I used the A/C (retro'd to 134a), then
> turned off the car and came back 10 min later, the rad was boiling.
> Literally boiling and just a-bubblin vapour out the overflow!!!!  Rad <
> 10kkm, new cap, engine temp was normal.  All I can think is that heat built
> up between the condensor and rad, and caused it to boil the fluid.
>
> Noooo, it's not a BHG.  Checked that a little while back (sniffer).  And
> there is NO way you'd get this much bubbling with a BHG.  I mean a roiling
> boil!!!
>
> Anyway, anyone retrofit a temp sensor to keep the fans on if the temp behind
> / between the rad was over a certain amount?  Thinking I might need to do
> that.  Set it for say, 80 deg C, and use a relay to keep those fans on until
> it drops below that.
>
> LMK
>
> Eric
> 91T
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