Help wiring old fan to new radiator

1. CarlStinson Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2013 Newhaven Posts: 262 2003 Saxo VTR

   #1 18th July 2013, 11:53

   Hi all i need some help with wiring up my old fan to my new radiator.
   
   My old radiator was a small rad with a plug on it, while i was up the local scrap yard i took out a bigger rad from a VTR, which fits in lovely looks nice and will do a better job and cost me peanuts, anyway i now have 3 plugs 2 female and 1 male so i need help wiring them up so i can get my fan to work as its not working im guess becuase of these plugs
   
   plug 1
   
   3 cables 2 blue 1 yellow (plugged into the old rad)
   
   Plug 2
   
   1 Green wire comes off the fans motor (must of plugged into plug 3)
   
   Plug 3
   
   
   2 blue and 1 green wire
   
   i think that my problem is that plug 1 tells the fan when to kick in but as the new rad dosen't have a temp plug on it the fan doesn't know that it needs to turn on so stays off, what wires do i need to connect to where, thanks for the help in advance.
2. Gandi699 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9100 Amazon green VTR 16v, Inferno RS clio 182

   #2 18th July 2013, 13:35

   so you've put a later radiator with no fan switch into a saxo that doesnt have an run ecu controlled fan?

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3. CarlStinson Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2013 Newhaven Posts: 262 2003 Saxo VTR

   #3 20th July 2013, 18:27

   Hi gandi I'm not sure what you mean by ecu controlled
4. CarlStinson Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2013 Newhaven Posts: 262 2003 Saxo VTR

   #4 25th July 2013, 16:59

   Hi Gandi correct my fan is not ran by the ecu
   many thanks
5. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

   #5 25th July 2013, 17:17

   You will need to buy a aftermarket fan controller with a probe that sits in the fins of the radiator.
   
   Like this. http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/perfor...fan-controller or http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/perfor...r-kenlowe-fans
   
   I have the second on mine.
6. Gandi699 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 9100 Amazon green VTR 16v, Inferno RS clio 182

   #6 25th July 2013, 17:49

   As above or buy one of the eBay temperature control things for the fan which makes it adjustable. Sensor sits inside the rad top hose. Bare in mind they ain't great though, mine broke so I went back to using the radiator fan switch.
   Maybe renew the rad if its old for one with a switch? All pucker kit then no bodges