To the best of my knowledge this resistor was only installed
on Vanagon with AC.  This is what give you the 3rd speed
on the 2 speed fan.
                                           Eric

SStones wrote:

> At 04:51 PM 4/28/03 -0700, Mark wrote:
> >Your fan resister is likely bad. It lives behind the driver's side
> >headlight. It is a large green current limiting resister with 3 wires to
> >it. Only used for lower speed fan operation, high speed puts direct
> >power to the fan.
>
> I believe that that big green resistor only exists in the late 80s
> vanagons, possibly 86-88...
> If you can't find it in there don't panic.
> If your cooling fan motor has two separate + terminals, then you're not
> going to have that resistor. (Barring additions from DPOs).