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Technical => Electrical => Topic started by: CJ Dubs on March 19, 2014, 06:23:29 pm

Title: Rad fan switch
Post by: CJ Dubs on March 19, 2014, 06:23:29 pm: Guys,

Anyone know what the red/black wire on the rad fan switch goes to? I'm putting a new loom in mine but this wire has been cut and I cannot see the other end! >:(

There are three wires on the rad fan switch - red/black, red/white & red/brown.

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Cheers,
Chris.
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: physicsfool on March 19, 2014, 10:21:56 pm: It attaches into the other fan switch!

It's the fat black plug that also has a brown wire and red/white wire coming out!
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: CJ Dubs on March 20, 2014, 08:56:01 am: Oh I see...you mean the plug that connects to the fan motor?? ???

At present I have three wires (as above) coming out of the rad switch - the red/black is cut and goes nowhere, the red/white goes to the rad fan motor and the red/brown goes back into the loom somewhere.

So you're saying that the rad fan motor should also have three wires (because it currently only has two) - the red/white which goes back to the rad switch, a red/brown (I think) which goes back into the loom and this red/black which also goes back to the rad switch?

I haven't got the loom with me to check but I'm guessing that if I look at the fan motor plug then this should have space for 3 wires then!? ???

Cheers,
Chris.
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: physicsfool on March 20, 2014, 10:13:18 am: Hi,

Yeah, my (red/black) loops into the fan motor plug. So that it has 3 wires

Martin
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: CJ Dubs on March 20, 2014, 10:28:25 am: Cheers geezer - I shall look tonight! ;D
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: physicsfool on March 20, 2014, 10:40:32 am: Are you replacing the whole loom or just sections with new wires?
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: CJ Dubs on March 20, 2014, 10:56:58 am: Whole loom!

Well...long story short I'm actually putting a G40 in a MK1 so I'm not so much replacing like-for-like but replacing altogether i.e. I took the MK1 loom out a few years ago and only now just getting round to checking the G40 loom (which was working when I drove the crash damaged G40 home a few years ago now) and putting that (complete) in the MK1 shell.

Cheers,
Chris.
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: physicsfool on March 20, 2014, 11:13:17 am: I priced up a whole new loom and i reckon its going to cost about 150.

Have you found a decent crimp terminal supplier?
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: CJ Dubs on March 20, 2014, 11:42:23 am: So far I haven't needed to change or add anything to the loom - this broken wire has been my only issue so I haven't needed to buy any supplies. I literally unclipped it from the G40 donor vehicle and clipped it in place in my MK1.
Title: Re: Rad fan switch
Post by: physicsfool on March 20, 2014, 12:05:29 pm: Ah, fair does, i am replacing the whole lot to hopefully improve signal transfer. plus the looms are 20 years old and the copper is becoming brittle.