Fans are toast. Both have internal electrical issues, shorted windings I suspect based on the bench tests I did on them both.
So I’ll be running aux fanless for now. In the meantime, anyone know where the relay would be for the fans? I want to go ahead and check the circuit out so when I get replacements I can drop them in and know they’ll be ready to run. Dan > On May 13, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Ramps. > > Tearing down the aux fans right now. Just got them out of the car (oy!) and > letting them soak with some Kroil for a few minutes. > > Both were pretty much non-functional, as they could barely be turned by hand. > I have had some success recovering these in the past, so I’m going to give > it a shot with these. > > I have never seen a condenser so crudded up before in my life. There must > have been five pounds of crap, like dead bugs, leaves, etc., etc. in the > thing. There’s a pile of crap under the front of the car where stuff fell > out while I was taking things apart. > > Fun. Time to see if I can recover these fans. > > -D > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
