Electric fan

Hello eveyone, finally today with the warm weather approching i got around to look why my electric fan dont work, i only had the land rover since nov 2010, so had no need for the fan. I have a 200tdi and the fan was not even wired in at all, i can see on top of the thermostat the is two connections for spade connecters. Does the fan go straight to this or does the the fan need a + feed aswell?

I would have it on a switch and turn it on yourself when needed. A mate of mine has done that and he's never even turned the fan on in 2 years.

Positive feed to fan, negative from fan to thermo-switch, thermo-switch to deck. Make sure the feed is appropriately fused. When the thermo-switch reaches operating temperature it will close the circuit and deck the fan.

Khaos has a valid method, however it's not fool proof; you only need to forget once, or have someone else driving it and it doesn't get switched on and your engine cooks.

dont you have viscous fan or is it conversion

I do believe that it is a fan kit jamesmartin, thanks.

yup, i fitted an electric fan and got worried that it never started up, yet when I turned the thermostat down it would come on. Ended up fitting a light to the dashboard so that I knew if it started, and apart from once last year being stuck in edinburgh in traffic for about an hour (the light actually worked!), it hasn't come on apart from that in prob more than 2 years (however, every so often I do go in and try out the thermostat again - it always works!). Ive got a 300 tdi.
cheers
ken

The wires normally go to some kind of rheostat that activates the fan. Several people do wire it into the dash so that it becomes a manual on/off. Mine has the rheostat type switch fitted and has only come on a couple of times when I've been stationary in hot weather.

Do you want some pics?

I ran a disco 200tdi for approx 2 years with viscous removed and elec fan fitted and it came on once in them 2 years for about a minute!
That was off roading motorway driving in fact everything.
Crude as hell but good engine the 200.


Lynall