mycotopian

I live in costa mesa, CA and have been looking to do the taurus fan swap but everyplace I call wants $75-100 for a used fan!! Can anybody else get them cheaper in there area? I'll pay you for the part, removal and shipping I just dont want to pay $100 for a used fan.

seafarinman

Wow. I only paid $30.00 for the fan with the pulling included for free. But I am up here in WA. OUCH! $75-$100 is a lot but for that much you can almost get a new one.

mycotopian

pretty much. Maybe next time your at the boneyard you can get one for me and ship it the cheapest way possible?

Yoda

There are 2 taurus' in my local boneyard. I'll check & see if they still have fans. (this place is usually really cheap)

What years are we looking for, or is it any with the 3 wire fan?

mycotopian

my understanding is that it is the 2 speed electric fan from an 89-95 ford taurus or mercury sable 3.8l v6

seafarinman

The place that I got mine is Best Auto Parts in Lynnwood WA. They charged me $32.xx with tax. I went in there and told the guy what I was looking for, and he told me where to look for it in the yard. I was a little confused so I went back and they sent some guy in a Nissan Sentra full of tools to follow me and he went and pulled it. I guess that the pull was free. Way cool. Anyhow here is their phone number. If they can't ship one to you for a reasonable amount, I will go there on my next day off and pick up a couple to sell.

Best Auto Parts
1-800-562-9174

cruizin01

Thats kinda funny thats exactly how much mine cost. Hey mycotopian if the junkyard I went too had another one I would pick one up for you, but the one I got is the only one they had. Keep looking. Ive seen a couple on Ebay that went for around 50 bucks. Keep looking youll find one

ravencr

I paid $40 for mine!

Chris

asudan96Runner

i posted a message on one of those "find a part" networks and I got about 15 emails, everyone wanted $40-$50 for the fan, plus $10-$15 in shipping.

Im going to look locally first.

Dan

mycotopian

Thanks everybody for you help especially Seafarinman. Ben at Best Auto Parts is awesome! It was $35 + $15 shipping. I'll have it hear on Tuesday!

seafarinman

Your welcome. Got to share my good fortune with the "Brotherhood" you know. Those guys there are way cool as I discovered when I dropped in the day I got my Taurus Fan. The guy who pulled the fan was a fellow Toyota pickup owner as well. I need to go back there to go look at the Toyotas next time. I want a pair of donor doors to make half doors from.

rimpainter.com

You could get the entire car at an auto auction for that much!

jx94148

I just paid $11 for one including both sides of the harness and plug. Its got 3 wires at the fan motor, A Brown with yellow tracer, Brown with Orange tracer, and black. At the plug it changes to 2 smaller blue wires, a brown/orange and a black.

There were 3 or 4 more from 3.8 FI motors in the yard where I pulled it. It cost me another $1 to get into the yard (wheel barrow rental).

I also got a couple 40 amp relays with bases and extra wire for $3 each.

Contact me if you want cheaper parts! I'll sell the fans for $16 plus shipping and packing costs. I haven't looked into what it would cost to pack one.

jx94148

It would be really awesome if someone knew where the relays and sensors are on the Taurus/Sables. I tried to follow the wire harness but it goes into the cabin near the glove box somewhere and I didn't know what to pull from there.

If you took the Ford whole system from a yard you probably wouldn't have to buy all those relays and control parts and sensors and crap that make the cost go up fast. It was all there and in very good condition, I just didn't know what to pull.