Honda CR-V Replace Radiator Cooling Fan A/C Condenser Fan 2001-2006 

I have to replace mine this Saturday. I'm gonna try this first. Reply if you have any further pointers. Thanks.

Thanks for this comment - that’s what I did! Although I did remove an additional bracket that attaches forward of the throttle linkage. It’s held by two 10mm head bolts and allows a little bit more wiggle room to get the fan out.

Did you need to drain the radiator?

About to do this tomorrow! Did the condenser fan a few weeks ago and did not take that crossbar loose, just went in from below for those tricky clips on that fan. Hoping this one will be easier!

Good job. And glad that wire got fixed. Need that AC! 🤙🏽

That’s wild my mechanic did it for 80$ without parts. Part costed me 67$ (just the radiator fan) the condenser was another 50$ but mine was t broken so 147$ if I wanted my guy to do it. I had my entire a/c system replaced for 500$ just two days ago. Pressure lines, vacuumed , compressor and condenser and unfortunately my radiator fan isn’t working

@@blurr_blurr Are you in the US? Car repair rates are through the roof.

@@reflactor yeah I’m in New Jersey maybe that’s why, but yea they’re getting more expensive they actually just raised the prices of Freon the supply chain is all fudged up so they’re paying for it too unfortunately. He gave me a pretty fair price.

Blackceller thanks for the feedback I’m glad it helped!

Hey Frank, where'd you get your fan motors? Thanks!

@@alphanumeric1529 I checked the prices at AutoZone and Advance Auto Parts and found out one store had much cheaper motors than the other so I bought the cheaper ones. But I don't remember which one of the two stores. They are almost next to each other where I was shopping.

Gabriel Keogan you’re welcome, I’m glad it helped!

Great!

Dushonda Erkins let me know if the video answers your questions!

I'm glad you liked it!

Thanks for coming

Carlos Pineda thanks mate, I’m glad it helped!

Two days ago, I purchased a Harbor Freight telescoping magnet, part of a $450 haul... My kid was like that's too much money! I didn't buy anything expensive, but there were over 50 items on the receipt. Last night in my dimly lit garage, I removed a nut, and it slipped out of the socket the second it came off the bolt, one clink, no second clink of it hitting the floor... I've been lucky with car, everything I've dropped into the engine compartment has fallen through to the floor... so far. But not last night. Opened the packaging on the telescoping magnet, (after spending 20 minutes actually trying to find where the nut came to a rest) and in seconds, nut retrieved. I really don't know how I could have retrieved it without the telescoping magnet. So, bought two days ago, absolutely saved me last night, instant return on investment! GET A MAGNET ON A STICK! The HF magnet is straight, telescoping. It was a difficult to get it to the nut actually, as I could see the nut through a narrow crack of a narrow crack, I couldn't reach the nut through that line of sight, I had to go around the side of the engine, and blindly extend the magnet, feeling around to get it to the nut. A flexible magnet would have been better. Jack, where'd you buy your long flexible magnet?

@@alphanumeric1529 Josh , I bought it at Harbor freight many years ago and it still works great , , it's saved my bacon way too many times I must say, awesome tool to have . I'm retired now and getting too old to work on hardly anything so what's your offer to buy and ship it to you ? , I can list it on eBay store to buy it ??? Not sure that model is now available ? Jack

@@jackbadabing Thanks man, I really appreciate that. I'll keep an eye out at Harbor Freight for the flexi magnet, no need to ebay/ship it, but I do really appreciate the offer. I too am getting too old to work on much. Changing the oil takes it out of me, just getting up, getting down, kneeling on a torn ligament in my knee I'm too poor to fix, ouch, that is insane pain. After this simple maintenance, my back is torture, my arm joints ache, and my hands... oh God, my hands. The next morning after even doing the oil, my fingers will be so swollen, they're like fat sausages and feel like someone took a dead blow mallet to them; if I try to close my fist too quickly or too strongly, my finger joints will pop out of their sockets, I have to open up my hand with the other hand and snap my finger bones back into their joints. In the morning before I get up, I have to softly and repeatedly clench my fists and feet, pumping the fluid out of the swollen tissue around my joints, so they don't dislocate. I'm only middle aged, but I'm high mileage, and due to a disease, I've been running without oil for about 30 years. Every joint is worn out, metal on metal. The failing body is designed, I think, to remove our fear of death, instead, to make us long for it. I tell all the young people I know, enjoy your body now, because when you're in your 80's, getting out of bed is going to be so painful it is like getting t-boned at 45 mph. Every morning! Who'd want to cling to life if that were your life? So, I'm with you on that one. But without vehicles, mortgage doesn't get paid, without mortgage, we're on the street. We just adopted a young lady, so now we have an extra kid to provide for. Can't have them living on the street, so I clench my jaw, tighten my gut and power through... until I can't move anymore, then through the night as my wife sleeps, beg God to take me, until it's time to get up and do it again... God bless!

I’m afraid I couldn’t say for sure without it in front of me but a lot of times wiring from other parts of the engine get clipped to the fan shrouds and can get broken when you don’t know they are there. But I would definitely say try to reconnect the broken wire and go from there! There’s often a small single wire that goes to the ac compressor, make sure that’s there and intact!

I'm glad it helped!

robert gliese hope it was helpful!

yes very much

if you are getting 14v at the fan plug (which is fine) then your fan is bad. It means power is getting thru your fuses and relays properly. There's a chance your fan plug or wiring could be bad so check out my video for testing your fan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0a8ZagFlsnE.html

Frank Pearman yes I removed the condenser fan first and it is on the passenger side. Ref: 8:32

Yeah. Our CRV has been overheating through the last half of summer, mostly when in stop and go traffic. So much other stuff going on in our life (just adopted a young lady desperately in need of help, and everything else), let it ride. On the last hot day of the summer, while my wife was driving home, the AC compressor exploded like a bomb in the engine compartment. I think it destroyed the crankshaft seal, as the engine compartment was covered in motor oil from the oil pouring out of the crankshaft seal (I think) onto the serpentine belt, and then was flung all throughout the engine compartment, and onto the passenger tire and passenger wheel break shroud, all along the underside of the car back to the back passenger tire and breaks. Oil EVERYWHERE. When I checked, the engine oil was really low, still above the min mark, though the engine sat for a long time before I checked its level. The engine may have blown, I don't know at this point. It still runs, but there are some clacking/clinking noises. When I took off all of the front underside, and tire well trim (took way longer than I thought it would, almost every black trim tab thingy broke on removal...), I found jagged triangular aluminum shards over an inch in size, and progressively smaller shards all the way down to a fine aluminum powder... all over the engine compartment. I didn't see the powdered aluminum at first. But upon really close inspection all throughout the engine compartment, there are bright little dots here and there. I'm concerned that these can short sensors, connectors, wire harnesses and other unimaginable things. I spent the entire day, until 2 am last night, just cleaning oil off the engine and various wire bundles, hoses, suspension components, and body frame members. The compressor's explosion was so violent, it blew the oil dipstick out of the engine. I shudder when I wonder if aluminum shards entered the engine through the dipstick hole... I *THINK* this was all caused by the radiator and ac fans both not working. Is there a way to diagnose if it is the fans themselves, the relays, or the switches BEFORE taking out and replacing these fans, it looks like a real PITA (though, I have all the trim off already because the AC died from the black death, I'm sure there are aluminum shards and powder all throughout the ac system. I can't just put a new compressor in, it'd blow in a week because of those shards in the system. So, the complete AC system replacement cost may be a significant portion of the blue book value of the CRV... AND the engine/crankshaft who knows what else, may have also been damaged from the explosion... this may have totaled the car, a car I hoped to put an additional 100,000 miles on... sad times).

When the car is cold and the ac is off normally neither fan is on. Turn on the ac and the condenser fan will immediately kick on (if your ac system is functioning properly). Also if you can locate your condenser (which sits sandwiched to your radiator, and looks like a small radiator) the fan that blows on it is your condenser fan. Or worst-case scenario look up the parts online and match them to what you have in the car

Yes with modern electronics all kinds of wacky stuff can happen but normally the fan that comes on with ac is the condenser fan, the other fan (you have two right?) is controlled by the temp sensor and only comes on when engine hits certain temperature. I would test the fans themselves and make sure they’re working. Check out our video on how to test budget-style ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0a8ZagFlsnE.html

Hard to say, they’re are many parts to the ac system. Sometimes you need to start by getting the systems professionally evacuated and refilled so you can see if low coolant is the problem

Unsure of your last question, but ac will not function properly without condenser fan! Often you can buy the fans separately BUT often it’s the same price to buy an assembly with both fans. Just look at parts and prices, but you do have options.

Just replace both. If one has gone bad, the other will follow soon. On this vehicle they work in tandem, if you turn on A/C both fans turn on, if car engine warms up, both fans turn on. So here in Florida, they run 95% of the time.

Since I do not have the car in front of me anymore, I can’t remember which fan is the AC fan and which is the radiator fan. The radiator fan comes on when the engine gets up to operating temperature. The AC fan comes on when the air-conditioning system is operating, it will also come on if the engine gets too hot

It’s been a while but I feel like hour and a half two hours would be plenty of time

Took me about three hours, but I had a heck of a time with the under-engine skid guard (most of the clips broke) and I had to undo the T-frame twice. Without this great video, it would've taken me an entire day (and that's optimistic).