i see your point there i will have a check on that.Water pump is ok so since your fan is on similar position to mines what direction does yours work pulling air away from rad or pushing towards it?

Fan on front needs to push air through the radiator into engine bay.
You need to make sure not only fan is spinning the right way but the profile of yhe blare is the right way too.
Get a piece of paper and turn fan on.
The see from front if it tries to push air away from rad or through it.
Also then test engine bay side for the same.

Ok
Replaced a Faulty Radiator cap today an the fan was spinning the wrong way It was pulling air towards the front of the car so i switched around the wires now its pushing towards the rad, i will have to drive the car because i had the car idling for a while and the electric fan did not even come on yet,it was getting late so next time i will see how it all goes!

hey darren

mine sucks air from outside the front grill and directs/pushes it towards radiator/engine side.So your fan is now spinning the right way.Funny how some people wonder where the fan is as it can't be seen behind grill.lol.

if you have a good quality fan, id get rid of the mechanical fan.

make sure u run a fuse for the fan too.

heres some pics of my setup.the holden sealer is for the bolts holding the fan to radiator.most of the things can be found at hardware stores.

also with your mechanical fan running, i wonder if the temp will be high enough to activate the fan switch.on what temp is ur switch activated?

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Love the air cleaner.

Instead of bolts through the rad you could mount the fan directly to the car. No rad issues then

Thanks alot A12grunt your pics help me out nicely showing step by step apriciate it should add it to the wiki

The main problem my a15 had the temperature pasting 1/4 from colt start in about 4 mins
Problem tured out to be a faulty rad cap!
A pic of the wiring of thurmo and fan.



Plus heres a pic of how far the temperature reached a 1 time.