My 16 year old has a 1997 SE that is overheating and leaking coolant. The cooling fans are not working , so I assume that the is major factor. The fans worked when we put freon in the A/C system, but it also has a leak and was out of freon within a day. ( are the low pressure and cooling fans tied together ? ) We want to replace the thermostat also. Does anyone have a link to pictures on how to locate and replace t-stat? I see where the upper hose connects to engine , but don't really see t-stat housing. Is it further back from brass bleed screw? Thanks in advance. Karl

When you runs your A/C on it kicks the fan on to help pull air across the condenser to cool the A/C. Have you tried replacing the relays for the fans? After that try the temp. sensor, then the fan switch, or you can hard-wire them to runn full-time with the key on. Follow the upper radiator hose to find the T-Stat housing, keep going until you find 2 nuts (or bolts) the hold it on, remove those, remove old t-stat, install new, reverse procedure, and check about bleeding the coolant system of snd and all air. Also soure your leak anf ix A.S.A.P. or your just wasting your time.

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Thanks Dane. I found t-stat under throttle body. Hard to get to. Gonna take more time than I have tonight. Tried relay before and that wasn't it. But did jump relays and fans worked so I know motors are good. Where is temp. sensor located and how would we hard wire?

3100? T-Stats on the 60*s are a PITA, that's all I remember...

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Well you can hardwire one of 2 ways, find a keyed source under the hood to tap into, or run a switch inside and wire it up like you would anything else.

I have no idea where the temp sensor would be, ahve you searched for any re-pair manuals?

Even looking at one for a Grand Am or something else with the 3100SFI will point in the right direction. If I had my rothers car here I could help you out more, but I dont, I'm working from memory.

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they are you have to remove the exhaust cross over to get to it

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The crossover too? I know the plenum has to come out since the throttle body and plenum are one piece. But if I remember right, the crossover doesn't interfere with the t-stat housing... though I haven't looked at my t-stat housing in a while.

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it's a PITA with it there. at my work i can get it switch out faster by taking it off

also this is going off of non W-Body cars mainly the u-body vans

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater