Heater blower motor

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Komet_V2
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Heater blower motor

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So, any movement through the blower settings doesn't activate the blower. Can it be anything other than the blower motor. When it went, there was a short time burning smell, say a minute.

Could the motor be fine and it's a fuse ?


There's still air coming into the cab, hot or cold, by moving the direction levers to cold or hot. But no control over strength.
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Re: Heater blower motor

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highly likly the motor, you can feed 12v direct the speed 3 wires which bypasses he resistor if that does nothing your motor is open circuit ( or the wiring which is unlikly. if you get lots of sparks your motor is shorted and you will find the fuse probably has blown.

It feels like a big job but in reality uninitiated it took me 3hrs , worst bit is the anti tamper bolts on the column if they have never ben replaced with normal ones. 

Rob
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