jerbo1978
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E fan is definitely not coming on.That all will probably help a decent amount.
The clutch fan is a viscous clutch, so it slips (after the initial start), then will engage fairly hard to a 1:1 drive (similar to cold start) when the temp on the fan gets around 220+ something - depending on year, etc. You may hear and feel it sometimes when you pull out after sitting at a long light on a really hot day. Other time is when you restart on a really hot day after just shutting the engine off for a minute or so.
Since your coolant is at that temp at a light on a hot day, it's not the clutch fan and it sounds like it's working ok.
Could be a slower efan if you don't hear it.
Or, could be a bit of a charge issue - which is easily corrected by draining, pulling a vac on the system and recharge with the correct charge - costs some $$ though. You could try adding a little bit by yourself pretty cheaply and easily though.
I missed it if you ever said that you can hear the efan or not.
Every time I turn AC on or the defrost,I get a check engine light fault code p0481.
Which is malfunction in Cooling Fan control circuit II
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