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The installation of an electric fan requires a simple, but important bit of wiring and electrical work. Here is a picture of the Ford starter solenoid that I will be using to route power to my fans. I picked up this $5 starter solenoid out of a late 80’s Ford Taurus of which there are plenty in most local pic-ur-part style junkyards. On the Taurus that I got this from it was mounted on the driver side inner fender.

After doing more reasearch I discoved that the Ford solenoid is not rated for a constant duty cycle and will not work, fortunatly I have discovered an elegant solution that I figured couldn’t hurt to try. Delta Current Control offers an electric fan controller the adjusts fan speed to keep your coolant temperature in a close range as opposed to a relay and temp switch that will allow your temperature to fluctuate quite a bit. I ordered the #VC-1260 (60 Ampere Controller) and #TS-104 (Radiator Temp Sensor) from the DCC paypal store.

My part arrived from DCC within about a week, and I quickly installed it. Since I had already run most of the wires needed, installation took me only about 15 minutes.



Mount the controller on the radiator core support.



Hook the controller up to power with the supplier fusable link.



Connect the fan and thermal probe to the DCC unit.



Close up view of the thermal probe.

Let me just say, this product has been working wonderfully. So far I have given it the Taco Bell drive through test, a 100 mile freeway drive, stop and go traffic, and a trip to LACR and I could almost swear my gauge is stuck at just over 195 degrees. I run a 195 thermostat so this is correct for my situation. Read a more detailed description of this product here in the DCC Product Spotlight.