'85 Ranger Restomod

[85_Ranger4x4]

I am beyond words...

Tonight is picture night for my car club, we (by we I mean me) take pictures of everybody with their cars for local newspaper to run a thing before the car show.

So I throw the panel back in and decided a run to town would make a great test run. Run thru McDonalds drive thru to get supper for everyone while I take pictures. I am minding my gauges, temp is creeping up and up. Ok now the fans should kick on.. but they don't, I flip the switch both ways, no still no fans. Takes seeming forever and three days for the car ahead of me to get their order and of course they stammer thru ours. Get it out on the main drag and start cramming air in the grille a gear lower than normal to get the flex a lite churning and it cools back down.

It literally ran perfectly this morning at like 1am, what is the deal now?

Over the night a stupid freaking mouse chewed both wires off the connectors going to the temp sensor.

I had made a jumper last night specifically for this connection to test the fan operation.

 

[sgtsandman]

I am beyond words...

Tonight is picture night for my car club, we (by we I mean me) take pictures of everybody with their cars for local newspaper to run a thing before the car show.

So I throw the panel back in and decided a run to town would make a great test run. Run thru McDonalds drive thru to get supper for everyone while I take pictures. I am minding my gauges, temp is creeping up and up. Ok now the fans should kick on.. but they don't, I flip the switch both ways, no still no fans. Takes seeming forever and three days for the car ahead of me to get their order and of course they stammer thru ours. Get it out on the main drag and start cramming air in the grille a gear lower than normal to get the flex a lite churning and it cools back down.

It literally ran perfectly this morning at like 1am, what is the deal now?

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Over the night a stupid freaking mouse chewed both wires off the connectors going to the temp sensor.

I had made a jumper last night specifically for this connection to test the fan operation.

I think it might be time to consider calling in a priest to exerocise the demons. Blessing it with holy water might be in order as well. Either that or consider naming it Christine.

 

[Jazzer]

Peppermint oil on cotton balls stuffed here and there….

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I think it might be time to consider calling in a priest to exerocise the demons. Blessing it with holy water might be in order as well. Either that or consider naming it Christine.

I need to have a talk with the barn cats, their whole purpose of being is to "exerocise the demons"

It is just incredibly funny, I have been working on the wiring, mainly efan wiring for a month and a half. I go to test drive it and within hours of completion mice do a strategic strike and crash the whole system.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Well the POS left me enough wire to just put new ends on it. So I did that and retested it with the jumper I made Tuesday night and everything still worked as it should.



I let it sit and idle while I tuned up the brakes on my bike and the fan cycled on and off like it is supposed to. Its been awhile since I heard them run but the fans sound like they have more gusto with my current setup.

Humidity did make for a kind of neat picture too.