How To Replace Driver Side Radiator Cooling Fan 1998-2002 Honda Accord

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In this video, we're going to replace the left hand, or the driver's side radiator fan on this 2000 Honda Accord. It's a pretty straight forward repair. All you need is a 10mm socket and ratchet, and a regular screw driver.

When you turn on your vehicle's A/C, as I have here, you should see both fans go. If one of them is not working, that means that one's bad. If they're both not working then you need to check the relay or the fuse.

Removing and replacing the fans is pretty straightforward. There are some harnesses that clip on here so you want to pry those clips off. Then, there's a 10mm bolt. I can't really show it to you, but it's down here in the center of this metal one. Right down there, basically in the center is another 10 mm bolt. You want to disconnect your lead, which is a matter of pushing down on that tab right there and pulling it out. Right down here, there's a little connection on the bracket. What you do is you put your screw driver in there like that, and then pull this up and off the radiator shroud. I'm just going to fast-forward through removing those two top bolts. The lower bolt I remove all the way, but you don't have to. As I'll show you later the fan is designed to slide down on it so you can just loosen it up probably four or five turns. It comes up and out.

As you can see this one is slotted, so what you can do is take your bolt that you removed from the bottom here. You can take that bolt and just thread it back in. As you saw, my original one was working fine. So, we'll put it back down in and careful not to hit any of the fins on the radiator. Then, you can bring it up a little higher, reach down, drag your bottom bracket onto your lower bolt here. It looks like we took it up a little too much. Start here. Use a little fast forward again as I tighten up those three bolts. You want them nice and firm, they don't have to be extremely tight, though. I'll take this clip, it's down low where you can't really see what I'm doing, but I'm clipping this harness back onto the radiator shroud where it belongs. This routes underneath. Get this pinned back in, and then last but not least connect your harness.

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