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Not relevent to the problem but something you should know .... 200 1993

re your comment, "...Your 1993 240 should include the electric pusher fan mounted directly in front of the A/C condenser. Does it come on when you have the A/C on or as the engine warms?..."

Actually, that electric auxiliary fan, at least in '92 and '93 models, has no relationship to engine coolant temperature, a common mistake; and shouldn't normally come on when you turn on the A/C.

It is activated solely by a pressoswitch in the A/C system (on the '93, it's located on a branch line beside a side rail beneath the lower radiator hose), and meant to turn on only in conditions of very high A/C pressures -- in effect, only on a very hot summer day when you're crawling in bumper-to-bumper going-to-the-crowded beach kind of traffic. Normally (even in the summer), that fan will not turn on when you switch on the A/C -- if you find that your fan does, you've got the wrong amount of refrigerant, or some other A/C system problem.

However, if you're a Volvo Club of America member and get their publication Rolling, you might remember my article in which I wrote how (if you have the Nissen aftermarket 3-row radiator with the unused thermoswitch) to install an inexpensive Volvo TSB-issued cable to make the fan dual-purpose, thus turning on either if A/C line pressures are too high or else if the coolant temperature is too high. My article was published in Rolling's July/August 2007 issue: Vol 25, Issue 4, page 25.

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