Nice video, Shows how easy a lot of the 911 really does come apart. :) FWIW,, couple soldering wire connecting tips. First, you want a solid mechanical junction before you solder, solder shouldn't be the primary support. For a loose example google "telegraph splice" then solder, the splice is sealed by the solder. Second, its easier to use a fine diameter specifically electrical lead free solder, and a quality high temp pencil iron, those older style gun irons tend to wonder all over on temp, often running too cold with age. . :) Amazing how much stuff the 911 vacuums off the road, we oughta get a kickback from the street sweepers..
Came for the 911 content…..standing here drooling because of the smoked ribs!! What kind of smoker is that? Edit: I learned how to solder in the Army in 1993. Don’t think I’ve done it more than 2-3 times since then if that. But definitely do what the other commenter said. Splice it, then solder. Don’t mean to beat a dead horse. I was just thinking that I would need to RUclips how to solder if I had to do it again now.
Haaaa. Thanks. It’s an Oklahoma Joe’s Bronco drum smoker. Soooo easy to maintain temp and really versatile too. They usually go for about $350 now I think. Pretty small investment for such good food!
@@motorsandmeats88 I’ve heard of Oklahoma Joe, just never seen the upright drum like that. May have to look into it, because $350 would be worth it depending on home much you can get into it. Thanks.
The only problem with your soldering is that your iron isn’t hot enough. You should let it get very hot then heat up the wire and touch the solder to the wire, not the iron.
I have 996.1 and got same problem. Left side fan not working at all, did find a blown fuse but sill nothing = resistor and / or fan. Since I did a full radiator clean out why not pull the fan off. Bench tested new resistor and fan works low & hi but its in really bad shape. Time for new a fan and put new resistor on right side since low speed just stopped working :( If the weather is good I'll start tomorrow, and put a rack of St. Louis ribs on the smoker! Thanks for posting!
My god. I fastforwarded the video and was actually thinking you did run over a deer or something and didn’t noticed until you cleaned the radiators. Ha!
Why did you decide to cut the connector off the new resistor and solder it on, rather than remove all of the old stuff and plug in the new connector and resistor? Just curious :) thanks for the great video!
Great question, and something that I did consider and explore myself before snipping those wires. LOL. You’ll notice there are two loose wires that don’t go directly from the plug down to the condenser. They have to be soldered onto the back of the fan itself. So to do that, method you’d need full access to back of the fan and still have soldering to do. Renntech suggested this to be the least invasive method short of total fan replacement (which comes with the resistor already installed).
I have a 997.1 and drivers side fan is not turning on. The passenger side fan turns on but seems very loud, is there a high and low speed on this fan. Seems the passenger fan is compensating for the driver fan. Car is not over heating however just loud when fan kicks on. Should both fans be on at same time? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks
Great question. Both fans should turn on at the slow speed when the temp hits about 190° and should run at slow speed the whole time your AC is switched on. When the temp gets to about 210°, both fans should come on much louder at a higher speed. If you look under your dashboard right above the fuse panel you will see your relays. There are 4 identical relays that control the high and low speed for left and right fan. Sometimes those fail. You can easily test them by switching them around. If you switch them around and your fans still run the same way you described, then your relays are fine. The only thing it could be then is either the resistors or the fans themselves. It’s not much more money to replace the whole fan instead of the resistors. If I was experiencing the malfunction you are experiencing, I think I would replace the whole fan which comes with new resistors. I wouldn’t want to put in that much work only to find the driver side fan itself was bad since it is not coming on at all. Make sense?
Nice video, Shows how easy a lot of the 911 really does come apart. :)
FWIW,, couple soldering wire connecting tips.
First, you want a solid mechanical junction before you solder, solder shouldn't be the primary support. For a loose example google "telegraph splice" then solder, the splice is sealed by the solder.
Second, its easier to use a fine diameter specifically electrical lead free solder, and a quality high temp pencil iron, those older style gun irons tend to wonder all over on temp, often running too cold with age. .
:) Amazing how much stuff the 911 vacuums off the road, we oughta get a kickback from the street sweepers..
Thank God you put this comment! I suck at soldering 😂 Maybe someone watching will read it and do better!
Thanks 🙏 will give this a shot
Most of the newer soldering irons are MUCH easier to work with than the ancient one I was using for this.
Came for the 911 content…..standing here drooling because of the smoked ribs!! What kind of smoker is that?
Edit: I learned how to solder in the Army in 1993. Don’t think I’ve done it more than 2-3 times since then if that. But definitely do what the other commenter said. Splice it, then solder. Don’t mean to beat a dead horse. I was just thinking that I would need to RUclips how to solder if I had to do it again now.
Haaaa. Thanks. It’s an Oklahoma Joe’s Bronco drum smoker. Soooo easy to maintain temp and really versatile too. They usually go for about $350 now I think. Pretty small investment for such good food!
@@motorsandmeats88 I’ve heard of Oklahoma Joe, just never seen the upright drum like that. May have to look into it, because $350 would be worth it depending on home much you can get into it. Thanks.
@@K1dPhresh1 if you hang them, you can get nine racks of ribs in there. Most I’ve done before is eight, but that feeds an army.
The only problem with your soldering is that your iron isn’t hot enough. You should let it get very hot then heat up the wire and touch the solder to the wire, not the iron.
I had a chance to try it out again since this video after some similar advice, and I had much better success!
@@motorsandmeats88 I’m glad you figured it out! Useful skill to have.
I have 996.1 and got same problem. Left side fan not working at all, did find a blown fuse but sill nothing = resistor and / or fan. Since I did a full radiator clean out why not pull the fan off. Bench tested new resistor and fan works low & hi but its in really bad shape. Time for new a fan and put new resistor on right side since low speed just stopped working :( If the weather is good I'll start tomorrow, and put a rack of St. Louis ribs on the smoker! Thanks for posting!
Ron, you’re my kind of people! Nice work on narrowing down the issue.
My god. I fastforwarded the video and was actually thinking you did run over a deer or something and didn’t noticed until you cleaned the radiators. Ha!
That would be pretty bad if there was a deer in your radiators 😬
A center radiator solved a lot of cooling problems for me
Being in south Mississippi, I think that may be in my future as well
Why did you decide to cut the connector off the new resistor and solder it on, rather than remove all of the old stuff and plug in the new connector and resistor? Just curious :) thanks for the great video!
Great question, and something that I did consider and explore myself before snipping those wires. LOL. You’ll notice there are two loose wires that don’t go directly from the plug down to the condenser. They have to be soldered onto the back of the fan itself. So to do that, method you’d need full access to back of the fan and still have soldering to do. Renntech suggested this to be the least invasive method short of total fan replacement (which comes with the resistor already installed).
@@motorsandmeats88 thanks!
Same thing I was wondering. Figured somebody had already asked it.
I have a 997.1 and drivers side fan is not turning on. The passenger side fan turns on but seems very loud, is there a high and low speed on this fan. Seems the passenger fan is compensating for the driver fan. Car is not over heating however just loud when fan kicks on. Should both fans be on at same time? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks
Great question. Both fans should turn on at the slow speed when the temp hits about 190° and should run at slow speed the whole time your AC is switched on. When the temp gets to about 210°, both fans should come on much louder at a higher speed.
If you look under your dashboard right above the fuse panel you will see your relays. There are 4 identical relays that control the high and low speed for left and right fan. Sometimes those fail. You can easily test them by switching them around. If you switch them around and your fans still run the same way you described, then your relays are fine. The only thing it could be then is either the resistors or the fans themselves. It’s not much more money to replace the whole fan instead of the resistors. If I was experiencing the malfunction you are experiencing, I think I would replace the whole fan which comes with new resistors. I wouldn’t want to put in that much work only to find the driver side fan itself was bad since it is not coming on at all. Make sense?
That ducktail is ugly. You should totally sell it to me. Like, right now.
😂😂😂😂 I’ll keep my ugly duck for now 😬
@@motorsandmeats88 Haha it was worth a shot. :)
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