None of those wires is ground. One end is the feed or +. The center is the low speed and the other end is for the high speed. A common failure is the low speed resister located behind the left head light. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:58 pm Subject: Re: gotta keep moving > To check your fan at the front of the van,first remove the lower > grill.Pull the wire off the sensor. Try to determin which of the > three wires is > ground. Maybe brown? You can jump a wire from the ground to one > of the > other prongs.This could be the high or low speed. Do this from the > ground ,to the remaining prong,too.Fan should run on both speeds. > If you > have a/c,try turning the a/c switch on. Even if your a/c is > broken, the fan > should run. You can put your sensor in a bucket of boiling water > and test > for continuity.Hot water will close the circut in the sensor. Try both > speeds here. > > Your shark swims too fast .You passed my vanagon store right > up,in the > Washington dc area. Still, I have a fan with your name on it. Lot > of hondas > to eat around here. > |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.