It sounds like you are looking at the circuit breaker. I was refering to the RELAY. See the diagram in the Technical Information Manual. FanZilla will probably take care of your problems though. Harold McElraft - 3354 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Joe Angell <jangell@xxxx> wrote: > > It sounds like your relay is sticking. The circuit that starts the > > relay is activated with the ignition switch but the wire going to > > the relay to run the fans is "hot at all times". Get a heavy duty > > relay from John Hervey (40 amps). Both fans take a full 22 amps at > > run (11 amps each) and nearly 40 amps to start them. That is a lot > > to take away from the starter circuit - especially if your battery > > is low or marginal. > > I checked and found I do have a 40 amp relay in there, which is a > replacement for another 40 amp that we thought was faulty last week. > > I noticed that if I have the AC on (which causes the fans to run) when > I start the car and the car is cool, the fans turn off so the starter > can get power. > > However, if the fans are running because the car is hot, the fans stay > on when trying to start, and the starter won't turn over. > > My FanZilla should be here early next week, so maybe I'll get lucky and > that will fix the problem. But I'm also considering putting a > transistor on the control line to the fan relay from the starter relay, > automatically disabling the fans entirely when trying to start the car. > Should be a pretty straight-forward fix. In any case, I have some > cooling issues (need a new radiator) which is why this is coming up in > the first place. > > Thanks for the help! > > -- Joe