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Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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JIzqu
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Aug 5, 2014, 6:54 PM
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Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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I was recently looking into my 2002 Toyota Echo's cooling system and noticed that my radiator fan doesn't turn on. I can't recall ever hearing it turn-on since I bought the car. I live in an area where it's cold and rainy most of the year, but once in a while it get hot during the summer, that's why I decided to look into it in the first place (especially since it overheats during those hot summer times). Anyways, after doing a bit of research and testing, I figured out that it was my radiator cooling fan switch. After much searching I failed to find the radiator cooling fan switch. However, through my search, I noticed that my radiator fan had a dangling housed wire that wasn't connected to anything. I was pretty convinced that the wire belong to the radiator cooling fan switch sensor, so I jumped it with a paper clip and the radiator fan came on while my car was on and turned off when I shut the car off.
However, I have been searching for the radiator cooling fan switch around the radiator, thermostat housing, radiator hoses, and have yet to find the radiator cooling fan switch to connect the wire to. So now I'm convinced that my car is not equipped with one. So now I’m on here looking for any suggestions. Is there a part that my car is missing, that I can buy to install a radiator cooling fan switch? Or where should I look for the radiator cooling fan switch?
My car is stock, and nothing has ever been done to it to customize it in anyway since I bought it.
I looked for helpful information on the site below, but failed to find it. As my car doesn't have any electric (ECT or cooling fan switch) connections sticking out of my radiator, and I can't find a radiator (for sale) that does.
link deleted ..................... not allowed
Any helpful suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you
(This post was edited by JIzqu on Aug 5, 2014, 7:22 PM)
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Tom Greenleaf
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Aug 5, 2014, 10:09 PM
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Re: Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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Found part not location and it had one. Near $100 buck thing so might have leaked and just a plug put where it goes? You say you know it's original/stock? Not if wire with plug is dangling and works fan. How far can that reach for a spot?
Choices: * AYOR, leave it jumped while needed for season. Totally AYOR!
* Go to dealer and ask at parts for diagram and location?
* Try a junkyard if available to look at one the same as yours and see how the compare. Should be 19mm deep socket on brass item into coolant with a rubber "O" ring suggests in radiator end tank? If found on junked vehicle buy it and test it by ohms.
Chart here.........
Car had to have something,
T
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Hammer Time
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Aug 6, 2014, 2:15 AM
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Re: Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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Tom Greenleaf
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Aug 6, 2014, 3:04 AM
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Re: Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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Excellent HT. OP - if you don't find at least a plug in a hole there it needs the switch and does seal coolant. Those end tanks do not repair well at all if messed up somehow?
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JIzqu
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Aug 6, 2014, 4:55 PM
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Re: Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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Thank you for the picture HT, and thank you for your advice Tom. I really appreciate it.
I found the plug on my radiator where the cooling fan switch should go, but for some reason didn't have one installed. I just bought the cooling fan switch and installed it. Now my car is working the way it suppose to.
Thanks again guys.
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Hammer Time
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Aug 6, 2014, 7:09 PM
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Re: Can't find my 2002 Toyota Echo's Radiator Cooling Fan Switch
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Somebody must have installed a new radiator and didn't transfer the switch.
Glad to hear you got it resolved.
Question closed as solved to keep the spammers out.
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