Hi,

On my 2007 LR3, I was replacing my fan relay (RL 16). When I put the new relay in, it just dropped in and was way too loose. I put the original one back in that was previously very snug and it took dropped right in. It seems that the contacts in the engine bay fuse box for this relay have dropped down somehow and now there's no safe way to drive the vehicle with this relay that loose.

Does anyone have any pointers or link to a video on how I could remove the fuse block and access the contacts from below to fix this issue? I feel like pushing the contacts back up would solve my problem, but I'm a bit apprehensive about removing such an integral part of the vehicle.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Undo the fuse box and see if you can push it back up from below.

 

Yeah... not sure but I think the correct answer is indeed above. Obviously you can look to see and be certain one or more of the connectors fell down. Not all are used, so compare to another. But pulling the fuse box, while not hard, can open a small can of worms. Often when the fuze/relay box is pulled up it will pull the firewall seal with all the wires. That can lead to potential water entry issues. So you have to make sure the large black firewall seal stays in place or goes back in and you position the box back in place.

 

Thanks for the replies everyone.
I got a chance to open up the battery junction box tonight to take a look. To my surprise, there were no wires connected to that location.

I looked back at the fuse diagram on the cover and realized I was trying to install the relay into an empty spot in the box. When I installed the R16 relay into the correct location, it fit perfectly. That was my fault for not checking that closer before tearing everything apart. Now I know!

For anyone else that needs to get access inside of this fuse box (battery junction box) always disconnect the battery first. To give yourself as much room as possible, remove the battery, the air box and the plastic divider around the battery compartment. There's one 13mm bolt holding the junction box in place. There's also a positive connection from the battery that needs to be undone from the junction box. 8 believe it was a 13mm or 15mm bolt. Once you remove this, you can lift up the junction box off of some threaded studs. To open the junction box, Carefully push the tabs on the front while lifting up on the latches. I jammed a plastic trim tool into the gap to help separate the two haves while pushing up on the latches.

There are two latches I the back of the junction box too, but they are very hard to get your hands on them to undo. Luckily just getting the front latches undone was enough to gain access to the inside of the junction box

Junction box lifted off studa

Battery and air box removed eofor extra working space

Junction box opened

Spade connectors on underside of junction box going to relays