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Subject:Re: Stray wires around the fuse block Help!!
From:mark drillock
Date:Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:47:26 -0700

In case I was not clear, you don't have any use for those 3 wires if you
removed the A/C. Just leave that single and double connector hanging
free. The J101 relay can be left in or out but won't ever be used on a
A/C rad fan wiring with A/C removed.

Mark

mark drillock wrote:
> I can help you. Those 1 and 2 wire connectors tie the front cooling
> system to the A/C system in the rear of the van, if so equipped.
>
> Page 97.145 of the Bentley wiring diagrams shows connector T2h.
>
> Pin 1 is red/black going to the dash from the A/C, to run the radiator
> fan whenever the A/C is on.
>
> Pin 2 is black/yellow, going from the dash to the A/C to turn off the
> compressor whenever the radiator high temp switch is triggered.
>
>
> That single wire connector is also for A/C if present.
> Page 97.144 shows connector T1b.
> It comes from the rear A/C high freon pressure switch to trigger the
> middle stage of the radiator fan whenever the pressure gets high inside
> the A/C system.
>
> (some of the other wire colors of the radiator fan circuit are wrong in
> the Bentley in the A/C diagrams section)
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Max Wellhouse wrote:
>> I have three unplugged wires around the fuse block and can't figure
>> out where they're spozed to go in a 90 GL that originally had
>> AC.  One pair are set up as male spades in a T-2 type connector at
>> right angles to each other. The wires are red/black and black/yellow
>> and both head down to the conduit/loom that travel towards the
>> radiator fan area.  The other is a skinny blue/red wire with a female
>> spade encased in a yellow insulator.  It originates from  what
>> appears to be the brown multi point connector in the back of the fuse
>> block.  The color codes certainly hint of cooling system, but unless
>> they plug into the J101 relay, I don't know where they go.  I have
>> had some potential cooling fan issues, but the Bentley says the blur
>> red wire is spozed to be 1.5 and this wire seems skinner than that.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated on a lonely Friday night!!
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> DM&FS
>>
>