I just installed my e-fan and pump and I have a problem.

Before installing it my stock temp gauge read in the middle of the temp symbol. I was running with a 160 thermostat and e-fans on the intercooler.

Now with the new fan it reading above the symbol allmost half mark on gauge. The fan never comes on because the temp sending unit is rated at 195.

So I disconnect the fans on the intercooler and then ran the engine again and then the fan kick on for alittle and then shut off.

Do you guys think I'll be okay running a little hotter or was I running to cooled before?

Or should I find another sending unit that will turn the fan on sooner.

Also before I install the fan I was running 12.71 very consistently on hot days. I worried about running to hot now.

Thanks
Shawn

 

Your intercooler fans have nothing to do with the temp of your motor.

Well just to be "technical" I guess they can to a very small degree. i.e........warmer inlet temps would yield warmer engine temps. But that is stretching it.

--Joe

 

I have the same situation. Mine comes on at 180 degrees and I have a 170 degree thermostat. I mounted a switch in the cab that turns on the fan on manually for cool down at the races, the rest of the time I have not been worrying about it. When the temperature drops the fan doesn't come on anyway.

 

Thanks for the help.

What I was tring to say was with the two fans on the intercooler might have been blowing enough air around to keep the rad cool.

 

Highly unlikely. I assume you have 2 pullers?? They will be pointing straight back because the IC radiator is perpendicular to the ground.

Needless to say that will do nothing for cooling the main radiator.

--Joe

 

I'm not tring to start anything. It was a question that I need answered.

With the fans hooked up the other fan never turns on. Disconnect them then the fan comes on.

All I wanted to know is it running at a safe operation tempature.

 

I am not trying to start anything either.

I am just trying to help.........maybe it is electrical.

--Joe

 

I use an adjustable thermocouple switch from Napa. I inserted the probe between the top vanes of the rad on the passenger side fully adjustable down to below 160degs. I used this to control the solenoid for the fans. I used a 75amp Bosch solenoid.

Floyd