Date:         Tue, 13 May 2003 19:31:10 EDT
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From:         Dustin Fitch <DSF70@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Coolant air - prevents fan?
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hey all.  quick question for ya on my '85 1.9L (no resistor behind L.
Headlight).  I bled my coolant system today.  Naturally, the air must be
bled.  I'm halfway there.  The question is:  at first, when she heated up, as
I entered the coolant,  the fan came on eventually.   Then i bled the air the
first time.....she got hot...I bled.  No fan...neither stage.  I got all the
way up to near the top line on the heat gauge..blinking LED.  Then shut her
down.   Bled again....lots of air.....still...no fan.  Does air in the line
affect the fan operation?....even when you've got almost...just about....all
the air out of er'?  My temp gauge has stabilized but I know I still have
some air...I can hear it bubbling a bit still.  Not too bad.   But
still....no fan.  I don't understand that....I thought if that switch up
front...which is new today and obviously worked once....I thought if when it
got hot, it puts the fan on, air or not..  Apparently not.  Is it the air in
the line still?

My front end is elevated and the relay for the fan is new too.  So isn't the
fuse.  Only thing I've never done is the thermoswitch in the thermostat
housing.  I know the thermostat is opening eventually, because I have heat
and steam at the bleeder valve on the radiator.

TIA

Dustin