[DeTomaso] Just whe I thought it was safe to go back in the water...

[Christopher Kimball]

When I took my '72 to the mechanic's on Thursday to have them put in a third 
sucker fan, they informed me they were swamped and couldn't get it done by 
the weekend.  They gave me the fan and the little plastic things that hold 
it against the radiator and said I should have "no problem" installing it 
myself.  Like a fool, I believed them...

I installed the fan after removing the two top bolts on the radiator so I 
could move it forward slightly to allow me to slip the fan down and mount it 
to the radiator.  I hooked the power wires in parallel with the driver's 
side fan, which is wired with heavy-duty wire to the Dakota Digital fan 
relay system I installed some time ago.

Once it was all hooked up I took it for a test drive.

Upon returning home, not only did I discover none of the three fans were 
working, and the two fuses leading to them (30 amp) were blown (the fuse 
holder for one was melted into a mass of plastic), and to top it all off, it 
appears I broke the radiator while installing the stupid fan!  Coolant is 
dripping from the passenger side lower front corner where it appears the 
lower part of the radiator has separated from the main part.

I am bummed.

Does anyone have any idea why the fan relay can't support two fans?  Do I 
have to buy a third relay to get three fans to work?

Sincerely,


Chris