[s-cars] Is this a temp sensor? - nope it's a radiator/aux fan switch
Tom Winter
tom at freeskier.com
Tue Jan 22 11:49:23 PST 2008
Thanks to Matt twenty V and Mark, I've now established what the part is.
Radiator/Auxillary Fan Switches come in two temp ranges. FWIW, mine is
95-102 C versus 85-93 C.
However, to get my car back on the road, I'm going to have to attach spade
connectors to the existing wire to connect to the switch, and then keep my
eyes open for the correct connector off of a car that's being parted. I'm
still looking for the order in which to connect these wires, as described,
below.
Fig. 1
------- Brown w/ white stripe -------------
------- ---- Brown stripe -------------
------- Brown w/ blue stripe -------------
These are the wires that go to the switch from the car. The plastic
connection that they all ran through to plug into the switch got destroyed.
Fig. 2
__ _____
____l l__l l
l l
l l
l l
l____ __ l
l__l l_____l
This is what the back of the sensor where the wires from the car plug in
looks like. There is obviously a right and left side, meaning the wires have
to be connected to the correct prongs (which sit three in a row across the
middle of the outline of the switch, above)
Thanks!
Tom 95 S6 Avant in the operating room
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