92 cooling fan help.
Thread Starter
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,130
Likes: 19
From: Arkansas
92 cooling fan help.
My 92 was running hot on a trip, 235degrees, which it never goes to that . I popped the hood and saw a plastic bag wrapped around the cooling fan motor. I assumed that this burned up the motor, it is the passenger side fan motor. So, I replaced the motor but it still does not work.
I swapped the relays and turned on the ac, and the drivers side came on. So I assume it is getting power and that the relay is good since the drivers side worked when I swapped relays.
I need to check power at the plug for the fan, I will do that tonight.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Shawn
I swapped the relays and turned on the ac, and the drivers side came on. So I assume it is getting power and that the relay is good since the drivers side worked when I swapped relays.
I need to check power at the plug for the fan, I will do that tonight.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Shawn
Le Mans Master
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 5,713
Likes: 105
From: Manassas VA
Shawn, just to make it more clear, I just went out and looked at mine. The fuse box is on the inner fender well, directly below the ECM and beside the master cyl. There is a 30 and a 40 amp in there for the fans. Also there is another fuse box located behind the battery. Not sure what is in it. Good luck!!
Race Director
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 11,671
Likes: 20
From: Lake Wylie SC
Just remember, the fans are turned off by the ECM around 35 mph. So on your trip, assuming you were going faster than 35 mph, your fans should have been off, therefore, something else was causing the higher temps. How much of the radiator was covered by the plastic bag? Was there anything else covering the air intake to the condensor/radiator?
Safety Car
Joined: Feb 1999
Posts: 3,504
Likes: 4
From: Mexico Beach FL
Shawn, just to make it more clear, I just went out and looked at mine. The fuse box is on the inner fender well, directly below the ECM and beside the master cyl. There is a 30 and a 40 amp in there for the fans. Also there is another fuse box located behind the battery. Not sure what is in it. Good luck!!
If it does, the fusible links are connected to the "jump start" connector behind the battery.
Tom Piper
Thread Starter
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,130
Likes: 19
From: Arkansas
The plastic bag didn't cover any of the radiator, it was wrapped around the fan blade base. That tells me that the fan was running when the bag was sucked into the engine compartment, but now with the bag removed and a new fan motor it still doesn't work. I am stumped, something happened when the bag was stuck in there.
Shawn
Shawn
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvette Engines RANKED by Peak Torque (70+ Years of Muscle!)
Joe Kucinski
Corvette ZR1X Will Be Pacing the Indy 500, And Could Probably Race, Too!
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvettes Coming to Mecum Indy 2026!
Brett Foote
Top 10 C9 Corvette MUST-HAVES to Fix These C8 Generation Flaws!
Michael S. Palmer
10 Revolutionary 'Corvette Firsts' Most People Don't Know
Joe Kucinski