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Subject:Electric/mount fan motor question
From:A Brandon Smith
Date:Fri, 17 Nov 1995 13:56:01 -0800 (PST)

exuse this if this becomes a repost, but i sent two different messages after i
sent this one and saw the other two but never this one.

>hi everyone, i have two questions.  
>
>ATTATCHING:
>	i have a fan motor, a piece of plastic the fan attatches to,
>and the two ducts that attatch to this piece of plastic.  what is a
>good way to attatch it to the top of the engine compartment?  what
>kind of grease/oil should i lube it with.  i am going to clean it up
>of dirt and rust and paint and lube it.
>
>ELECTRICAL QUESTION:)
>	i was testing my new heater fan last night and have some
>questions about how it hooked up so the switch works up front.  my
>basic setup from what i can tell from when there was a heater motor is
>the following.  there is a little circuit drawn below that i think
>acts to complete the connection up front.  (this is the picture
>printed on the box, and this is how i believe it should be hooked up? 
>
>30 - the wire from the front of the bus (which i believe is a ground
>     wire that is "grounded" when the lever is pulled).
>87 - ground to the fan motor
>85 - a wire directly from the battery, there is a fuse in this wire.
>86 - power to the fan motor.
>
>
>
>	           /
>	__________/ _______
>	|   	   	  |	i believe the box in the middle 
>	|       ___	  |	is battery/power and the switch
>	|       | |	  |    	is the ground line?
>	|  _____| |____	  |
>	|  |    |_|   |	  |
>	|  |          |	  |
>	|  |	      |	  |
>	0  0          0   0
>       30  85        86   87
>
>
>i believe that when you throw the lever up front, you connect it to
>ground, thus completeing the circuit and turning on the motor.  bit
>when i hook it up this way, and touch the power from the fan motor to
>#86, is all i get is a click sound out of the little box drawn above.
>but i know that the wire from the battery is fine since i can hook the
>fan directly up to a good ground it works.  the wire from the front is
>OLD, and very thin and using a voltmeter i don't think the connection
>is reliable.  i want to replace it, where do i get wire and what
>gauge(?) do i need.  how could i just install aswitch instead of using
>that lever, or is hooking it back up to the lever easy.  assumiong i
>want a switch (since i want one for something else i am going to do)
>how/where do i get one?
>
>just call me the electrical dunce:)
>
>thanks everyone for any advice you can pass my way.  take care all,
>
>
>		brandy
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