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Feb 21, 2008 | 01:03 PM

coasTTal

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Need Help Unplugging Fans

I am in the middle of one PITA job of replacing my two radiator fans.

I have them almost out and cannot figure out how to unplug the fans.

Here they are plugged in:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24437/fans_plugged_in.jpg">

Here are 2 pictures of the new plugs.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24437/plugs.jpg">
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24437/plugs_b.jpg">

I'm stuck.

Feb 21, 2008 | 01:07 PM

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What am I missing...Slide them out of the brackets...>>

(up) and fiddle with the release tabs..

Feb 21, 2008 | 01:11 PM

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looks to me like the slide up on that plastic mount>>>

then you seperate them.....hard to tell from that first pic tho...

Feb 21, 2008 | 01:29 PM

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Actually looks like the backend (the otherside of pic 1) is what gets unplugged

Once unplugged you and slide your new plugs in. Hope that makes sense. I think the items you are replacing are supposed to be the items that are plugged INTO.

Feb 21, 2008 | 02:07 PM

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Gotta Apart......

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24437/apart.jpg"></center><p>Yes, it was the back side that came out. It seems if you look at the two plugs they are male and female. I slid them together and reasoned that the rear part would need to come out and then the two fan plugs would slide up. Much simpler to write than do.

Notice that the part on the car that the plug slides into has a barb at the top.

None of this is in Bentley or posted anywhere, so new ground.

To get to the fans and get them out requires that the intercooler pipe be removed and the hard pipe next to the intercooler pipe be moved. I have a relocated oil cooler and have two steel braided hoses that are also a pain to snake this thing around.

I'll take a few more shots of the fan and post a write-up later.