6.4 Cooling fans cycling for no reason

Six_Sloww

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My truck for some reason thinks it's always hot.

We've been having some real cold weather in MI and when I start my truck up dead cold, after a few minutes my cooling fan will start cycling on/off, on/off never letting the truck warm up.

If I take it out on the road, it seems like they act normal, or if they are on, they're low because I can't hear them.

The truck only gets to operating temp on the highway, and if I pull off and sit for a minute the fans will literally cycle on/off until the truck drops below operating temp, maybe even til cold, but I've never let it idle long enough to find out.

I would assume the fan clutch is working, because it's capable of varying speeds, and disabling the fan all together.. But what's telling it to turn on for no reason?

Also, I'm doing a coolant flush soon along with an egr cooler delete.. Does anyone know if ill be able to keep the fans off with a snap on solus? I'll be in the truck to keep an eye on temp, but there's no way it'll get hot enough to do a proper flush with the fans on.
 

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Fan speed sensor is hooped. I went through this for a year. No damage caused by it. Just damn annoying. Sh!tty thing about the sensor is it is part and parcel of the fan clutch hub assembly and those buggers aren't cheap.
 

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So is there anyway to Diag it at all? I know there's really not a ton of things that can go wrong, but for 250 bucks id like to be sure
 

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There i beleive is also a desired fan speed vs fan speed, you might check that, but like stated there really isnt much to go wrong in there
 

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Is the defroster on? I know in the summer the fan kicks on to help the AC. Could it be kicking on too due to a bad sensor on the AC telling it the pressure in the system isn't at te right psi and to cool the ac condenser more?
 

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