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Anonymous Posted on Aug 07, 2011

Cooling fans won't turn on. I replaced temp sensor, fan relay,and thermostat. I jumper across the relay and both fan's came on by doing that,I don't know what else to test ? any Idea's would help. Thank's

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On the relay you should have 12 volts at 2 slots terminal 30 has power all the time terminal 86 has power when then computer tells the relay to turn on fan, for cooling or a/c, terminal 85 is ground(-) for the 86 terminal to energize the relay to send 12volt from terminal 30 thru relay and out terminal 87 going to fans, sounds to me like computer not getting the signal to relay, you did get for blow fuse? and does fans come on with a/c on?

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