Hi!

Lengthy post coming up

I'm the owner of a 1996 Escort 1.6 16v,LHD (I'm Romanian) and the car is acting up.Bottom rad hose blew and it seems the cause is the radiator fan not kicking in.The fan seems to be on a dual speed setup (the car has AC which doesn't seem to work,I don't really care about that it's just that from what I've read the AC should turn the rad fan on regardless of temp.It doesn't.).First checked the resistor found on the fan housing,it says 0.23 ohm on it however my DMM reads 18.5 K ohm so the resistor is probably gone.Replaced the resistor with a thick piece of wire,still no low speed,or any speed for that matter.Then I moved on to the 4 contact thermo-switch I found in the upper rad hose.One wire is live(12V) and when I connect that to another wire in the opposite(diagonal) part of the connector,the fan comes on with what seems to be High speed(it still works if I take off that wire I used in place of the fan Low-speed resistor).I think this triggers the green relay just behind the battery as I connect those 2 wires from the thermo switch loom.The other 2 wires I guess should be the Low speed part,there's no live on any of those 2 and when I used the live from the high speed on the remaining wire the fan still didn't work.For now I'm left with manually controlling the fan via a switch wired to the thermo-contact thing in the upper rad hose,high speed.
BTW:30A fuse in port 22 of in-car fuse box checks out fine.The thermo switch seems to be the cause of my fan problems so far,apart from the low-speed circuit.Is there a separate relay/circuit for that?I'd like to sort out the wiring/relay and whatnot before replacing the thermo-switch and resistor.

Sorry for the lengthy post,hope I got it all covered