Well I got caught with my pants down for sure. I have many tools in the trunk of the '66. Well, tonight we went to a cruise in about 40 miles away at an older style bee-bop place with lots of cars/trucks. You know, where they are playing Elvis wide open. Lots of nice people to talk to. After a couple of hours she was ready to go so off we went. I did do a little burn as we pulled out...yes everyone was clapping and cheering...lol. WTF is my temp gauge doing on 250!!!!!!!!!! :bomb (elect autometer gauges). I quickly pulled into the movie theater parking lot and cut it off.
Popped the lid and checked everything...don't see a damn thing wrong. :confu I opened the trunk and...where the hell is the electric meter I always keep in there. Whoops I used it working on the '56 and forgot to put it back, arrgghh! So I knew it was the 2 speed elect fan that would not come on. It has 2 relays for the low/high speeds. checked the connections and they looked great. Just had to be a bad ground, so I cut the ground wire from the negative battery post and put it under a bolt on the frame. Still nada. Starting to sweat now, at least the sun was down so it wasn't still 100F +. I finally said to hell with it, after a few minutes, and cut the high speed wire from the relay and wired it directly to the battery and of course it ran fine, just no way to cut the fan off and that was okay as we were headed home. I did check the large fuse that was inline and it was okay, even tried another one. I am glad I had installed an under hood light a couple of years ago as it was very much needed because I could not find the flashlight that I always keep in the car? Stuff just seems to disappear into the black hole that we call a mustang..lol On the side note, the redhead ( wife of 34 years) thinks I am great and wise because I got it running in such a short time...little does she know...lol. :shee
Popped the lid and checked everything...don't see a damn thing wrong. :confu I opened the trunk and...where the hell is the electric meter I always keep in there. Whoops I used it working on the '56 and forgot to put it back, arrgghh! So I knew it was the 2 speed elect fan that would not come on. It has 2 relays for the low/high speeds. checked the connections and they looked great. Just had to be a bad ground, so I cut the ground wire from the negative battery post and put it under a bolt on the frame. Still nada. Starting to sweat now, at least the sun was down so it wasn't still 100F +. I finally said to hell with it, after a few minutes, and cut the high speed wire from the relay and wired it directly to the battery and of course it ran fine, just no way to cut the fan off and that was okay as we were headed home. I did check the large fuse that was inline and it was okay, even tried another one. I am glad I had installed an under hood light a couple of years ago as it was very much needed because I could not find the flashlight that I always keep in the car? Stuff just seems to disappear into the black hole that we call a mustang..lol On the side note, the redhead ( wife of 34 years) thinks I am great and wise because I got it running in such a short time...little does she know...lol. :shee
