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How do I wire a manual switch so I can turn my second cooling fan on whenever I want.

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Old 09-12-2000, 04:54 PM
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How do I wire a manual switch so I can turn my second cooling fan on whenever I want.

I already bought a toggle switch...and now all I need to know is where to run the wires to. I know I have to connect the ground wires, and the hot wires...but I need a good desctiption of how to do all this. Thanks

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Check the tech section here, there's an article on doing that.

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What I did to get both fans running at the same time was jump a wire from the power on the first fan to the power on the second fan. This made both of them turn on when only one would turn on before. Then I wanted to add a switch to turn them on when the car was off so I ran a wire from the same jump wire from before, and connected it to a switch inside the car. Any other Q's?



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