Fan Switch

[Gearhead24]

Hello,
Recently my 98 has been overheating a little bit. Whenever I would pull up to bike night there would be a small puddle under the right exhaust (not a head gasket, I just didn’t have the reservoir hooked up so it dumped it onto the pipes). Most of my rides are quick and low miles so it never got the chance to get really super hot, but the light did come on while I was stuck at a train. Tested the fan and the fan works when you short the sending wire to ground so I know I have a bad switch.
I was curious to see if there’s any sort of way to refurbish the switch, I’m going to order a new one but didn’t want to stop riding it for a few days while I wait for that to come in

[Valker]

More likely the fan relay, I’d think.

[Gearhead24]

Relay? I don’t know of any relay for the fan besides the thermo switch that grounds the fan to activate it. Whatever the units called it sits in the bottom left of the radiator. When I ran a jumper wire to ground from that wire the fan kicked on and was moving good

[Jim Moore]

I would just ground the wire and let it run full time until the new switch comes in. If you wanted to get tricky you could wire in an on/off switch. 

[Gearhead24]

Yeah that’s probably what I’ll end up doing. Who knows, I might like it better being able to control when it comes on and have extra cooling

[Avanti]

I have had mine on an on/off switch along with the temperature switch for years.