Overheating!! Summer is on the way need help!!

TheGrlWthCurls22 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-24-2006, 04:48 PM

I have a 2001 Grand Cherokee. One day it just decided to overheat. I then realized that the cooling fan was not kicking on. Then the water pump started leaking. I replaced that and I also replaced the relay to the cooling fan. Everything was working beautifully, and then the alternator went out. After the alternator went out, the cooling fan quit working again. I am back to square one and I don't want to replace the relay again if it isn't bad. Please help!

90Xjay · #2 (**permalink**) 01-26-2006, 12:09 AM

IF you have some basic tools, you can test the relay by taking it out of the vehilce. If you want the instructions, several of us can walk you though it.

TheGrlWthCurls22 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-26-2006, 03:05 PM

Thanks alot! That would be great. Just let me know what tools I need to test it. Let me ask you this...would it be better to just by-pass the relay and keep the fan running all the time? That relay is $90!!

NCjeeper · #4 (**permalink**) 01-26-2006, 08:39 PM

im having the same problem almost. i posted in the OTHER overheating topic. my fan doesnt cut on, when when i unplug the temp sensor from the thermostat housing it doesnt come on. helppp

90growler · #5 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 07:45 AM

Did you check the coolant Temp sensor??? I have an '02 that was acting up and all I did was change that.....works perfectly............

xjpioneer · #6 (**permalink**) 02-18-2006, 11:24 PM

Well I hate to say this but if yuo dont get a ZJ from its day out of the factory and dont take care of then you will have all the those above, who knows what the previous owner did to it.