By jon on Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 03:50 pm: Edit

when i got home from work (35 miles) i turned off my 96 disco and pulled the key out of the ignition. after i did that, there was this fan like noise comming from under the hood that lasted about 30 seconds then went off. is this normal? it's never done that before...
thanks

By jec on Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 06:39 pm: Edit

Sounds like the electric fans that run after you shut off the engine if the water or fuel are too hot. But normally they run for some period of time like 6 to 10 minutes. Was the engine particularly hot? Were you running the air conditioning?
John

By jon on Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 06:52 pm: Edit

yep, i was running the aircon and the engine temp was normal. i'll check the fluids tommorrow morning. any other suggestions?
thanks

By Alex Schubow (Alex) on Friday, September 21, 2001 - 02:11 am: Edit

This is normal. If the ECT is above a certain level the electric fans will stay on after the engine is turned off. They shut off automatically after the temp cools down a bit.

Alex