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Subject:Re: Radiator Fan
Date:Thu, 4 Jun 2020 16:24:16 -0400

None at all. There are
No switches on the dash and nothing in the rear. 

Jamie

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> On Jun 4, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> a question here... the van came to you with no AC at all?... or it had AC
> but disabled (compressor removed and/or bell removed?)
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:50 PM jamie@kookymathteacher.com <
>> jamie@kookymathteacher.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is a new to me Vanagon. I Installed new fan which is the larger fan
>> because that is what was there. Would this cause the fuse to blow?
>> 
>> -Jamie
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Jun 4, 2020, at 3:25 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:11 PM jamie@kookymathteacher.com <
>>> jamie@kookymathteacher.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Long time lurker here. I have a 1990 Vanagon, its not  a camper and no
>> ac.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Never had a/c means you have the smaller fan giving two speeds with
>>> internal resistor, and your high speed fan relay is in the fifth position
>>> upper row on the fuse/relay panel.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> My radiator fan is not working. When I jump the fan with the plug that
>>>> attaches to the radiator fan switch, the R/Bk wire makes the fan work
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So low speed normal.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> and the R/Bl wire blows #1 fuse.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Short to ground on either the relay control line (red/blue to panel H6)
>> or
>>> the high fan power lead (red from panel H1 to the three pin fan
>> connector.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I have replaced the Radiator fan. In the Bentley schematics and in my
>>>> vehicle
>>>> I don’t see a Low speed radiator fan resistor. I do see a second stage
>>>> radiator cooling relay. Could a bad relay cause a fuse to blow? Thanks.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Not completely impossible for a broken relay to short to ground; but very
>>> unlikely.
>>> 
>>> Pull the relay.  If the short goes away it's the red wire from panel to
>> fan.
>>> 
>>> Yrs,
>>> d
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Jamie Auch
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>