Ranger takes a dump while at Recycling Center. I'm Tempted.

[GMWIGGS]

So you watch an old man in a crown vic toss away urine bottles with the help of some hazmat workers. He starts fiddling around in his trunk so you decide to push his car out of the way? I hope the old man was still standing at the trunk when you bulldozed his ass out the way! Serves him right for getting out of the car when he wasn't supposed to! The only thing I would have done different was to slap the old man and hazmat guys around a little bit for having the audacity to hold me up!

I couldn't resist..............

All kidding aside, I hope your wife is OK. Not sure what to tell you about your cooling system. Probably a bad temp sensor switch? Definately put 12v directly to the fan to make sure it does work. As others have said, it came from the factory with a clutch fan.

 

[JackLikesTrucks]

Well, here's the gist of it.

Thanks for asking about the wife. If she finds out I'm posting, she'll send ME to the hospital. Cardiologist checked her heart electrically and chemically. We're waiting to see about the bloodwork. But I wanted to see if she'd check her thyroid and sure enough, she did. Found alump on the thyroid, could be anything at this time. Though we suspect her thyroid hormone is off and screwing up the heart function. It does happen. Wife was happy, now she can blame her 2 lb weight gain on an inactive thyroid. So not every heart issue is the heart.

Yeah, I did push the little sob. After I told him to get back in the car and pull up so I could get out. He just looked at me with those glassy cataracts and went pack to fussing over his filled up 2liter pepsi bottles. Lazy sob probably cruises the parks and is too lazy to get out to P. After my bumper made contact, he hustled a little faster. The steam helped more than any threat from me I'm sure. I didn't push hard, I know police actions just slow you down when you're trying to get to a hospital.

I managed to print out the diagnostics for the fan. I'll ge tot it tonight or tomorrow.

Ford did in 2002 put on a mechanical, non-electrified clutch fan and a electric fan as well. I know its different, but they put two on. I removed the mechanical fan so I could work on the engine easier hoping the electric would never give me problems and sure as hell it did at the worst possible time. Figures.

At least I now know the fan's working status. It's not.
The Ranger will be OK. Thanks for all your concern.

Oh, wife'll be OK too.

Both just need a little time and money.

 

[Grey_04]

Ford did not put it in there...

Ford did in 2002 put on a mechanical, non-electrified clutch fan and a electric fan as well. I know its different, but they put two on. I removed the mechanical fan so I could work on the engine easier hoping the electric would never give me problems and sure as hell it did at the worst possible time. Figures.

seems to me the op states that the truck did in fact come with both fans ..if it was in place then it wouldn't have gotten that hot..

seems strange i knew that before he posted that fact

 

[JackLikesTrucks]

seems to me the op states that the truck did in fact come with both fans ..if it was in place then it wouldn't have gotten that hot..

Dad, please. Not now.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

You unhooked one of the fans?

Hopefully the electric one. Mechanical things are always more reliable then electric.

later,
Dustin

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

You unhooked one of the fans?

Hopefully the electric one. Mechanical things are always more reliable then electric.

later,
Dustin

Don't unhook any of them, just put the mechanical fan back on.

 

[warrior24]

Well, not sure what temp exactly the fan is supposed to turn on, but on my Tempo the fan relay went out quite often and caused the fan to shut down. I overheated that car about three times due to that cheap relay switch and blew the plastic plug out of the bottom of the rad more than once...

So...I'd say check the relay...they aren't expensive, but their failure can lead to some major repairs...

haaha glad to see all tempo's have the same problem. Sorry about your truck

 

[JackLikesTrucks]

Hell no. There is no need in my climate and workload to put the mechanical fan back on. I'll just fix the electric one and we're good to go.

I live on the north coast of the US. we never see 90 degree days, and I live, and work, a half-mile from the expressway I drive 65mph each way. I never sit in hot traffic with no cooling fan. The one time it broke, it boiled over.

Now if I go back to Orlando where this truck came from, on goes the mechanical fan too.

BTW. fan fires up with battery hooked to it. Next....

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I just did a quick search on it as I remembered seeing the aux electric fan thing come up before. Mostly only the 2.3 trucks with A/C get them, which makes me wonder if they are even temperature controlled or if they just come on with the A/C compressor. It would be easy enough to check if it comes on with the A/C and or defrost.

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33458

If you are too scared to run your factory mechanical fan (for milage I suppose?), at least put a real electric one in it, you are tempting fate.

 

[JackLikesTrucks]

Here's the final story.

There is absolutely nothing available to detail the purpose and function of the electric fan.

But I have determined it is wokring and comes on full-time when the AC is on.

The electric fan is slaved to the AC system full-time and has no connection to the cooling system. It is to move air over the AC coils when the AC is in use in any of the air settings that use AC, not just the AC positions. It is not thermostatically controlled.

There begins to be electrical conflicts if I design the fan to come on thermostatically when the AC is off and then on fulltime when the AC is on.

NOT worth the effort to figure out

For me to use just minimal engine cooling, I have to have the mechanical fan installed OR 'just remember' to turn on the AC when idling, which is prone to human failure since there is no light warning for a hot engine.

So in a nutshell. Engine gets cooled by the mechanical fan, AC coils get cooled by the electric fan. They are seperate conditions and don't overlap enough to satisfy one or the other.

I wonder if the electric fan turns off at a certain road speed.

So for now, my commute is 100 yds to get on the expressway, 50 miles at 65 mph, then off 100 yds to work, and then back home for its commute, I am stuck with the mechanical and electric fans just to have everything covered. Hope they aren't too much of a drag in my commute.

Things we learn.