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Radiator fan would not come on and temp gauge went to hot.Did by pass fans work but now ignition key has no start response only clicking sound from EATX fuse/solenoid. Vechicle is a 98 dodge grand Caravan 3.3L engine. Car also alarm system on it. Remote start turns engine over. Ignition key has no starter response.
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Hi Bill, is the engine actually getting hot enough for the fans to come on? if the engine does have overheating problem (but you say the temp gauge reads normal) then i would check the operation of the engine temp switch, there are two, one for the gauge and one for the fans.
fans came late on those car,like 212 and second fan comes on at 224,you reprogram it to come a lot sooner,,other thing is there might be gunk inside the block,and coolant has hard time to pass through,and staying longer than enough in block temp goes high,even tough the radiator is doing it's job,it is just coming out block lot hotter than it suppose to be,and gauge read the block not the radiator
CHECK COOLING FAN FUSE AND RELAY.IF ALL IS GOOD.HOT WIRE COOLING FAN TO MAKE SURE COOLING FAN MOTOR IS WORKING. IF COOLING FAN RUNS WHEN YOU HOT WIRE FAN MOTOR.CODE SCAN FOR ECM FAULT CODES.REPLACE THE ENGINE COOLANT TEMPERATURE SENSOR NO NEED TO BYPASS THE SENSOR.
Terry, what's happening, is when you turn your heater on, no matter what temp you have it set at, the vehicle allows coolant to pass through your heater core, and the blower motor acts as another cooling device for the anti-freeze. The next steps I would take, is to check your fans. Let the vehicle warm up a bit, and look under the hood and see if they are turning on at all. If they are, next, you may need to flush your entire cooling system. First start with the radiator, and if that does not help, you may need to flush the entire system, which flushes water jackets throughout the engine, AND the radiator at the same time. Now, if you are not seeing bubbles, (check under the radiator cap also), I would doubt it is a crack anywhere. Take the first steps I gave you, and see if this fixes the problem. Hope it helped you out.
The electric fans on some vehicles dont stay on all the time. If the radiator is not burningyou then i would suspect the guage is bad. The engine would throw a code if the fan was not working properly, so im pretty sure that your fan is working properly. I hope that helps you out.
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