martdog420

Just curious (i know honda fan alot smaller and uses less power than 5.0 stang) but I was burnin up toggle switches running hot wire to toggles and was told to run the toggle to the ground.. As u can tell Im no electrical engineer (wholly did i spell that right??) Was info correct?

bobo8504

I wired my fan to run ALL the time. Its annoying listening to it. But at least I don't have to worry about overheating

Helmut

It depends on the type of 4-wheeler you have. For example, the 350 Rancher fan has power running to it all the time if the keyswitch is on and it is triggered by the ground wire from the control unit. On the 350 Rancher, you can splice into the ground wire and run it through a toggle switch to ground and toggle it on and off like that. A lot of 4-wheelers have fans that are turned on and off by the power wire coming from the control unit, so that wouldn't work on those. You would have to run a power wire from the battery through a toggle switch to turn the fan on and off. If you are burning toggle switches up, you could always use a relay and just put a toggle on the trigger wire of the relay, so the fan wouldn't be pulling current through the toggle switch.

Helmut

Something I forgot in the previous post, I suppose you could cut both wires to the fan and run a power wire, through an inline fuse and directly to the fan and then put the toggle switch on the ground wire to toggle the fan on and off. I guess that was what you were saying to begin with, don't know what I was thinking. I doubt if the fan on an ATV would pull draw enough current to burn the toggle switch up, like an automobile fan would. That would be a lot simpler than using a relay, wouldn't it. LOL.

jdwhunt

Question for jim s your wiring sounds like a 5 wire setup I,ve done 4 wire setups I am somewhat cornfused .where did you get relay and could you breakdown to the to and from again as i missed something in the first explanation

foreman480

yep pluss if you go through water or mud alot say bye bye fan

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ole_smokey_88

my buddy just wired his to the key switch so it works all the time i like the idea pretty well cant get to hot

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jim s

the fan has inturnal ground. i did not use green wire from fan as ground. just blue wire..the pink wire is hot to reliy blue from temp switch to reliy when temp switch switches on [ grounds] this entergises reliy.... the white wire is also hot it goes to reliy blue wire from fan to reliy ..works great.one blue wire going to fan is all you need..

Trey S

Are you guys saying that the fan is always supose to be running? When is the fan suppose to turn on? When my 97 400 is idleing for awhile i've noticed that it never turns on. Is it suppose to? Thanks

Helmut

No, it's not supposed to run all the time. It's supposed to kick on when the oil reaches a certain temperature. Some people like to wire them up through a toggle switch so they can turn the fan on earlier, so the engine will run a little cooler. I'm not sure about the 400, but the fan on the 450 is supposed to kick on at about 302 degrees F.