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Easy way to rig this?

Old Mar 18, 2004 | 10:43 PM
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Easy way to rig this?

Fans aren't turning on - Vegas summer is fast approaching. Foglights are gone too... was wondering if I can jump the fan relay with my foglight switch? I would really like to just flip them on and off at my leisure. Easy?
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Old Mar 19, 2004 | 01:20 AM
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If the relays for both aren't working, wouldn't it just be simpler to replace them and have working fans and working fog lamps?

I thought about a manual fan switch too, but I know I'd forget and leave them on all the time, lol! I'd let the relays control them, if for no other reason than, it's safest.
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Old Mar 19, 2004 | 03:41 PM
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No no. You misunderstand - I deleted my foglights, so I can run the Camaro ram air mod in the near future. So now I have a foglight switch that controls... nothing. I would like to have it control BOTH fans. I am not worried about leaving them on by accident.

Can it be done with some ease?
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Old Mar 19, 2004 | 04:05 PM
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its very very easy to do...almost to easy...

take both fan relays and strip the casing off the GREEN/White and GREY/white...you only need to strip a 1/2 inch off it....then soldier them together....run a power from those 2 to a switch, and the other side of the switch grounded.....

the reason you use those 2 wires is that there BEFORE the relay so that the switch just triggers the relay not the fan itself... and if you dont use the relay youll have yourself a wire fire in short order....but im sure you knew that .....

Doing it this way both fans will come on when u flip the switch...but, im gonna get a 3-way switch so left will be one fan right will be both fans and center will be off

And since your just laying the 2 wires together and not cutting them or twisting them, its easily reversible
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Old Mar 19, 2004 | 09:04 PM
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Thanks a lot, buddy. This is what I needed to know, and now i'm gonna go take control of my fans!

Thank you.
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