[Supras] A/C booster fans

[Jim Jobe]

I'd replace the rad cap (could be bad to begin with) and check the
radiator neck to make sure the sealing surface for the cap hasn't
deteriorated (or bad to begin with).

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:13:01AM -0400, Dm19959 at aol.com wrote:
>  
> 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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