spinnakerblue
06-20-2025, 04:53 PM
1983 944 NA.
Hi - when I bought the car recently the power antenna didn't work. I purchased an original bench tested antenna, that works great. And, I know from other forums that the cooling fan relay is connected to the same Fuse (#3 in the Aux panel) as the antenna. When you touch the black and red wires of the antenna wires, the cooling fan comes on. And the PO had a 25A fuse in a 16A spot.
My problem is bigger - when I turn the radio on with correct antenna wiring, the passenger side fan comes on. And, the heat melted the plastic of the fuse - so I figure i've got a bad driver fan, or a bad fan relay. I tried again with a new fuse, this time with the antenna power feed pulled from the fusebox. The fan didn't come on with the radio, but the fan came on due to temp, and melted the fuse again.
Everything worked fine when the temperature was cool. I'm going to pull the fan relay and bench test it, but, it doesn't seem to want to come out of the panel and I'm worried if I pull too hard it will break some solder on the fuse panel. Anyone seen an issue like this, and have advice on the relay pull? I cant get a pull tool anywhere near it due to the location.
Marcus
Hi - when I bought the car recently the power antenna didn't work. I purchased an original bench tested antenna, that works great. And, I know from other forums that the cooling fan relay is connected to the same Fuse (#3 in the Aux panel) as the antenna. When you touch the black and red wires of the antenna wires, the cooling fan comes on. And the PO had a 25A fuse in a 16A spot.
My problem is bigger - when I turn the radio on with correct antenna wiring, the passenger side fan comes on. And, the heat melted the plastic of the fuse - so I figure i've got a bad driver fan, or a bad fan relay. I tried again with a new fuse, this time with the antenna power feed pulled from the fusebox. The fan didn't come on with the radio, but the fan came on due to temp, and melted the fuse again.
Everything worked fine when the temperature was cool. I'm going to pull the fan relay and bench test it, but, it doesn't seem to want to come out of the panel and I'm worried if I pull too hard it will break some solder on the fuse panel. Anyone seen an issue like this, and have advice on the relay pull? I cant get a pull tool anywhere near it due to the location.
Marcus