Help Me Preserve My Repurtation

[Huw Powell]

> Huw, thank you for your insightful input. But now I
> have a few Qs based on your reply, if I may :)

Sure, but I want to point out a coupe of things first.  One, I only have 
passing familiarity with the QSW.  Two, although I have an '89 90Q, the 
car in question was a 20v and might be quite different.  Three, the QSW 
is going to be different from that 20v.... but anyway, I'll see if I can 
at least shed light on what I already said anywhere.

> I'm almost certain the relay is there, right behind
> the driver's side headlight.

There's a big difference already - the post 1985 type 85 and 89 have the 
relay in the underhood fusebox.  I think the afterrun relay is in the 
auxiliary relay panel underdash.  As I recall, the QSW fusebox is quite 
different.

>>On the QSW/4kq/cgt, the resistive drop is only used
>>for the afterrun fan triggered by the sender on the
>>back of the head.

Now here, obviously, I am generalizing to the QSW, which could be quite 
different...

> By "restrictive drop" I guess you mean as produced by
> said resistor, again in the case of my '87 QSW located
> in the metal support/shroud for the fan.

Yes.

> Also, by the “back of the head,” do you mean the
> sender off a little metal bracket attached to the rear
> of the valve cover on the passenger side

Yes, that one.

Beyond this, I wouldn't (shouldn't) want to pontificate about the 
radiator fan setup on the QSW - as a car designed to "work hard," a 
wagon that one often sees with a tow hitch, it might be set up to cool 
itself more aggressively than the sedans and coupes.

-- 
Huw Powell

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