The coolant temperature sensor and the machine personal computer curb the electric radiator fan in your Accord, unlike belt-driven fans. In most cases, damage to the fan can be attributed to a loose wire or blown fuse. Nevertheless, debris that has accumulated on the fan blades is most oftentimes the grounds of failure of the fan Engine. You can remove the gray radiator fan in your 1996 Acquiesce Homewards. The complete repair lifetime, including replacing the fan, should catch no exceeding than one period.
Instructions
1. Lift, and bed, the hood on your '96 Conform. Loosen, and remove, the abrogating battery cable from its display with a suitable socket and ratchet. Wrap electrical tape encircling the metal terminal ultimate of your adverse battery cable. Position the cable absent from the battery, and loosen, then remove, the useful cable from the advise, with the socket wrench, very. Community tape on all sides of this terminal, too.
2. Remove the electrical tape on the Accord positive battery cable terminal, and discard it. Connect, and secure, the positive cable to the battery with the socket wrench. Remove the electrical tape on the negative cable terminal, and discard it, as well.
3. Set the radiator drain plug at the backside, centre of the radiator, on the engine side. Slide your coolant remove pan subservient the automobile, and column it up with the withdraw plug. Remove the radiator cap, then spread down into the engine compartment, and activate turning the extract plug to the left. Grant the coolant to flow away of the radiator for 25 seconds, and hurried the filter plug, by turning it to the left, until it is snug.
4. Squeeze the metal tabs calm on your Accord top radiator hose with a couple of pliers. Attract the clamp back on the hose, absent from the radiator, and Proceeds the clamp. Pull the top radiator hose off its connecting nipple on the radiator.
5. Place the radiator fan's Engine. It sits at the centre of the fan meeting. Unplug the wiring harness connected to the left side of the fan motor.
6. Remove the two bolts along the top of the radiator fan assembly with a socket wrench. Both of the bolts sit against the lip of the engine compartment to the rear of your Accord hood latch. Lift your radiator fan, slowly, out of the engine compartment, while watching to make sure that it does not catch on any other wires.
7. Lower the new radiator fan back down into the engine compartment, and position it for mounting. Hold the fan in position with one hand, and thread each of the fan securing bolts with your other hand. Tighten both of the fan bolts with your socket wrench, until the are snug. Plug the wiring harness that you disconnected from the old fan up to the new radiator fan.
8. Reattach the top radiator hose to the nipple on the radiator. Squeeze the tabs on the hose clamp together with the pliers. Slide the clamp back toward the radiator into the original position, and release it. Refill the radiator with fresh coolant, and place the cap, securely, over the filler hole.
9. Lower the battery back down onto its tray. Place the clamp back over the lower left and right side of the battery. Install both of the clamp bolts by hand, and then tighten them with your socket wrench, until secure.
10. Remove the bolt from the clamp on the lower left and licence of the battery with a socket wrench. Grasp your Agree battery with both hands, and lift it away of the engine compartment. Establish the battery down, carefully, to the side of your functioning nature. Connect, and secure, the negative cable back to your '96 Accord battery with your socket wrench, and shut the hood.
