mmdir2002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
> I noticed that my honda 89 civic the fan is not running
> everytimes I've opened the hood and just looked at it.
> The fan was not running. If my fan is not running, should my
> temp gauge going up more I drive the car, but it doesn't. The temp
> gauge shows the normal temp. Today I opened the hood when the temp
> gauge is normal level, I started the car the fan was running on couple
> of seconds, then it stop.
> Is this normal? What possible problem I might have?
> Does it has to do with theomostat?

The fan is controlled by a thermo switch. It should not run all the
time. In hot weather it comes on more often, and it comes on more often
when you are driving slowly or at idle.

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