The fan should also turn on whenever the AC is turned on. Sounds like they
left off a wire somewhere.


On 8/4/06 5:54 AM, in article
1154688884.209757.146340@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups. com, "Jeffrey D."
<jeffrey.t.dellosa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys!
> Need all your help and expert opinion.
> My second-hand (or used car) honda civic 97 vtec model has a new
> radiator but the engine gets hot when my aircondition is turned on for
> quite sometime. I just had the aircondition system "overhauled",
> meaning all have been refreshed, and also have a new motor fan. Though
> the fan is not original honda, but it works really fine. The fan of the
> radiator turns on when the engine is hot. When I drove around 50kms,
> the reading at my meter starts to increase from midway to close to the
> highest temperature allowed so I have to pull my car in the shoulder
> everytime this happens.
>
> There are no leaks I can observed from all hose lines and I observed
> that the radiator fan does not turn on too long, only around a minute.
> Is this normal?
>
> I do not have problem with overheating if the aircondition system is
> not turned on while driving for an hour, this only happens when i turn
> the aircondition system on.
>
> Other known fact was that the previous owner of the car (I just
> recently learned) have experienced total overheating twice but the
> engine was not damaged.
>
> I still don't want to dispose the car and all i want is to fix it.
>
> Looking forward for all your reply and comments. Please email me at
> this address: jeffrey.t.dellosa@philips.com
>
> regards,
> jeff
>