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Subject:Re: Rad fan--2 or 3 wire???stumped
From:SStones
Date:Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:50:21 -0400

At 04:51 PM 4/28/03 -0700, Mark wrote:
>Your fan resister is likely bad. It lives behind the driver's side
>headlight. It is a large green current limiting resister with 3 wires to
>it. Only used for lower speed fan operation, high speed puts direct
>power to the fan.

I believe that that big green resistor only exists in the late 80s
vanagons, possibly 86-88...
If you can't find it in there don't panic.
If your cooling fan motor has two separate + terminals, then you're not
going to have that resistor. (Barring additions from DPOs).

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