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- From: gerber@boulder.parcplace.com (Andrew Gerber)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: The Stanza Saga continues: More advice sought for '83
- Message-ID: <C0JrG5.JEt@boulder.parcplace.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:02:29 GMT
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- In article <1ii28oINN795@agate.berkeley.edu> sandrar@garnet.berkeley.edu (Sandi Rollins) writes:
- >We now suspect that we were sold used parts; the advance looked sloppily
- >crimped, and the mounting has made us wary. While it seems that the cutout
- >problem has been (temporarily?) fixed, the car is running _LOUSILY!!_
-
- Bring it back to the mechanic and demand that it is fixed.
-
- >To add further complications, the fan has also died, so the car overheats
- >if driven in town traffic. The thought was that perhaps an electrical
- >problem of some sort has caused the computers in the carburetion/ignition
- >system to be burned. This might explain the idling problems (electronic
- >carburetion control) and the fan (burned out fan relay).
-
- It could be the fan relay; it also could be the thermo switch which is
- located, if you're standing in front of the car looking back, on the
- lower right rear corner of the radiator. This sensor senses coolant
- temp and turns the fan on and off. (well, the relay is really what
- does it, the thermo switch is just one of several binary inputs to the
- fan relay which tell the fan when to turn on and off). These thermo
- switches usually crap out somewhere after 80,000 miles.
-
- You can test the thermo switch by removing it, seeing if it conducts
- electricity, then sticking it in boiling water and see if it conducts
- in the water. When mine went bad several years ago the bozo garage I
- was going to couldn't figure it out and I ended up blowing a head
- gasket. Also, remove the electrical connection to the thermo switch
- and close the connection with a piece of wire. You should hear a
- click (that's the relay) and the fan should start running. If that
- happens, it's probably the thermo switch which has gone bad.
-
- Andy
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