Must have come from a right hand drive model! Ken
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Chad J. Douglas <[email protected]>wrote: > Just to keep the list up to date: > > I spoke with the vendor that sent me the fan, and they assured me that this > fan motor was pulled from a Miata, and it must’ve just been a factory > screw-up. > > When I pull the radiator out in the next couple weeks when my dad has the > money to buy its replacement. I plan to rewire the existing fan to make it > turn the right direction, and while I’m at it, I’m going to try to determine > if the fan was just mis-wired when it was made, or whether it was really > designed to turn the opposite direction. > > If it was designed that way, its likely that the fan also came with a > matching set of blades with the reciprocal pitch so that the airflow was the > right direction even though it was the opposite rotation. > > What this all boils down to is this: if it’s designed that way, always > make sure you either get the blades that go with the new fan motor, or make > sure the motor you’re getting is designed to turn the same direction as the > motor you’re replacing. > > I’ll report back here when I know more. > > > > On 4/27/10 5:28 PM, "Chad Douglas" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The plot thickens. > > The fault is in the fan. The harness provides 12v properly and the wires > aren't crossed on the connector. The yellow wire on the harness connects to > the blue wire on the fan. I connected a spare main cooling fan and it runs > in the right direction and flows the right direction. > > Here's the strange part. A while back, my dad's main cooling fan failed And > we replaced the motor. We got the fan from a respected Miata salvage parts > vendor, too. > > I guess they got a fan from some other car that had blades that turned the > opposite direction, since all we did was to transplant the fan blades from > the failed motor to the new one. > > I had forgotten about this tidbit when I posted about this originally. > > I plan to contact the vendor privately to let them know that they may want > to be more careful. > > For now, I will just install my spare fan in his car..... After we get the > new radiator, that is. > > --------------------------- > Chad Douglas > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 26, 2010, at 2:30 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Do both fans run backwards? Was the car ever in an accident? Body shop > are notorious for doing this type of miss wire. Trace the harness and see > if there are any butt connectors. > > Does the car have a/c? It is amazing that the car never over heated if it > does. > > Raj > > > > In a message dated 4/26/2010 12:12:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > Wrong flow verified. Car has never overheated. > > > > I plan to get the car back soon to track this down. I just wanted to ask > the list I'd they'd seen this before or I'd Mazda dud something "brilliant" > in 97. > > > --------------------------- > Chad Douglas > Sent from my iPhone > > > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > >
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