I"m not trying to harp here, but I don't think that helped. Your fans are going, sure, but they can only do so much by themselves.

Depending on the efficiency of the radiator, with no real cool air coming from the front it may take a little longer to cool than if it were moving. By reving it the coolant isn't in the radiator as long thus can't shed as much heat. You'd be putting slightly hotter coolant back in as well as adding more heat by reving.

I could be off base, and I'm sure someone will tell me anyway even if for whatever reason I'm right.

 

someone ith another FD told me that if i have the parking lights on, at 180f the fast will cut on, instead of at a higher temp....is this true??

 

No.

 

does the fan mod work that good?? is it worth putting in?? i know it would only take an hour or so to do probably...sounds like something i would like to do anyway

 

The problem here is loss of pressure on the system with eg/w for coolant. Loss of pressure lowers your boiling point. Not much you can do about it once the pressure is gone, then the coolant boils out and now you have air where the colant was, so it wouldn't make much difference what speed your fans are running at this point. Glad it wasn't too bad and could be corrected. Jack

 

yes, for 93 and at least some 94's. fans 1st on at 200F vs 221F normal, with pkging lites or cabin fan at 3.

if coolant temp is rising, and one must drive some, put on full heat in cabin. That constant hot coolant flow from block never sees the rad.

 

so if idling the car doesnt make sense, turbo timers wont be so popular right?

cause all they do is idle the car so the turbo dont have that hot gunky oil sit in there, fresh oil is passed through there but aside from that, it doesnt operate the fans or do anything else that pertains to what we're talking about. i mean you could however wire the turbo timer so the car runs and have the fans on too..

so all in all, idling there for a minute or 2 is not bad..i rather have the coolant transfer as much heat as it can at idle for that minute to bring the water temp down a bit than to shut it off right away and have that heat just sit there..

 

dude thats messed up what happened. Im glad it worked out. That storm was beat. A tornado tuched down like a few miles from my house, luckily my car wasn't there but the garage wasn't damaged either. 5 C130 planes got messed up at the air port like five miles from my house though.

 

yep, heat was on full blast too .

 

They wont come on at 180f but they will come on at a lower temp then they would with the lights off.