[Supras] A/C booster fans
Dm19959 at aol.com
Dm19959 at aol.com
Tue Aug 1 10:13:01 CDT 2006
Sounds more like a stuck thermostat or blockage in the radiator.
-Dean
In a message dated 8/1/2006 8:11:22 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
speedtoys.racing at gmail.com writes:
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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