Fan speed resisitor GQ

It's mounted in the front of the heater box assembly, a square block held in with 2 screws.

If you're in victoria, give Patrolapart a ring, they have secondhand ones cheap.

I haven't any experience with gq's but on the older toyota's of the same vintage it is normally positioned in the duct behind the glovebox between the fan motor & the heater housing (if a/c is fitted it is in the evaporator housing that replaced this duct) & in my gu workshop manual it showes it just to the rear & the side of the fan motor

It should be a plastic housing held in to the ducting with a self tapper or 2 & have a wiring plug going to it with probably 3 or 4 wires

Your diagnosis sounds correct as when the resistor fails you normally lose all speeds except for high

Good luck

Regards Don

A resistor normally has more than 2 wires going to it (it depends on how many fan speeds the vehicle has)

The resistor looks like a flat plastic housing with the wiring plug on one side & the resistor coils on the other (how many coils depend on how many fan speeds it has)

The coils are normally exposed to the airflow inside the housing that the resistor mounts into but some later (toyota anyway) resistors have the coils enclosed in a white solid substance (possibly a hint sink material)

This web site may be helpful to you as it has a dedicated gq forum

http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/index.php

Resistors are normally fairly obvious to locate


Good luck

Regards Don

maverick22
This is probably better answered by our Res auto spark. But anyway passanger side behind glove box is the air/con condenser box (plastic) facing you is a metal panel 100mm x 50mm with a wire coming out the top three screws to remove behind panel is your resistor bank to do the 3 speeds one of the wires will be broken best to buy a new one or go to the wreakers. This is for the OEM air/con some Mav were supplied with non OEM condenser boxes it is nearly the same just located on the side have to remove sys to see anything.
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This was on the patrol forum regarding a maverick but it will be the same as a gq
Have a read & see if it makes any sense with what you are looking at in yours

Regards Don

I hope the green gunk you cleaned off was not the stuff that resistors have across the coils from new

I don't know why it is there but possibly to support the coils in the air flow or as a heat sink

If this is the case i don't know what effect removing it will have

Regards Don