blowing fuses for radiator fans

Any wire can ground anywhere, hell I have my radio and gauges all going to 1 ground in the car..

It sounds to me like you dont have a large enough fuse for the fan(s), and its drawing too much current popping the fuse.

Also you don't HAVE to have a relay, it is suggested but not needed.

What size fan(s) and what size fuse are you running? You should have 1 fuse per fan.
 
i have dual mishimoto fans, i think theyre 10 inches. i have a 30 amp in line glass fuse, only one though. i have a ground to where you bolt down the shift boot. i dont care for a relay if i dont need it then. should i wire up 2 fuses and then splice them together?
 
You should run 1 30a fuse per fan, power can come from the same place.

power < 2 fuses = 1 to each fan.

The relay is good to have, but not absolutely needed.
 
whats it going to do for me? just another safety from melting or overloading or something? i want to keep it simple and efficient. making things more complicated makes things more difficult
 
The relay acts as a switch only letting power to the fans when needed. Using a relay is the right way to do it ill try to get you a pic of how mine is set up tomorrow when the sun is out
 
Lol ill try right now

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its really not that hard. For your switch you need to run the wire from 85 on the relay to the positive terminal on your switch then the negative just run to the ground you had. 86 is the ground on the relay which you can run to the same ground as your switch. If you run 86 to the ground terminal on your switch its not grounding so it will not work. run two wires one from the ground on the switch and one from the ground on the relay you can run them to the same bolt for your ground
 
so i dont need a fuse in front of the relay? or 2 more for each fan? and i still dont know if i need to ground my fans seperately or not...
 
ok so i tried the relay, couldnt get that to work. not exactly sure what i was doing wrong so whatevs. yanked all that out, kept the 2 fuses that i put in for each fuse and pulled the in line glass fuse. now i got it back to how i had it and its SOOOOO CLOSE but the left fan keeps blowing a fuse however, the right fan stays on and blows hard. could i have fried my left fan somehow? causing it to pull to many amperagesness or some other nonsense?
 
Yeah, the fan motor could be bad and pulling too many amps. It happened to one of my haydens, right after I bought it.
 
so one fan is donezo, they were flex-a-lite fans actually which are still pretty nice. should i just cut them in half and still use the one or just buy 2 new ones?
 
I wouldn't hack them up is buy two new but if your balling on a budget cut for now until you can get new ones
 
I got one flex a lite fan. Actually two but one has no blades.
Make an offer. That way you can have two flex a lite fans for the low. Pm your number and ill text pics
 
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