Electric Radiator Fan

[Dan90]

Hi all.

 

Recently got our brumby going which we had been working on. Runs fine except it makes this strange sound in the muffler when the rpm's go up (different issue tho).

 

What I noticed is that when I was driving the brumby around the yard for about 10 mins the temp was just below halfway (which is what an old wagon we used to have ran at) All was fine and dandy but i noticed the temp slowly go up after the next 10 mins.

 

When we parked the car back in the shed to make sure all was well we left it idling and looked under the bonnet. Both electrical fans didn't seem to be working with the temp sitting at about 3/4 the way up. We only took a quick look so haven't fully investigated why, but the fan closest to the left side (when facing the car from the front) was plugged in while the one on the right side (again facing while standing in front) didn't appear to be plugged in.

 

Now I know I will need to go plug in one fan, but why might the other one not be working? Also could there be something I may have overlooked that I should have checked?

 

Cheers,

 

Daniel

[rxleone]

All the Leones I've had seem to run awfully cold. Mine barely sits 2mm above cold when I'm out crusing at 100kph, but leave it at a standstill and it'll shoot up to two thirds within about 10 minutes. I put it down to air cooling.

 

 

I'm still very surprised at how cold my old girl runs though. I took her about 400km south a few weeks ago, stopped to check her out and not only was the radiator cold you could put your hand directly on the engine block and not get burnt.

 

Runs like a dream

[GLCraig]

The Fan on the left when facing the car, is an optional fan that gets installed on Subarus with air conditioning. Turn your A/C on and see if that fan turns on. If you do not have A/C, someone must have wired in that fan and you'll just have to figure out how they did it.

[Dan90]

Cheers Guys. I'll check it within the next few days and post back how I go.