Heated business! What's this?

Post by **maxstu** » 11 Sep 2008, 03:55

This fell out from under the dash....

I'm in the process of removal to fix heater blower thingy...using the ever ubiquitous advice from the magical 80 90 wiki

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Also, I've now got the dash off & the heater unit shell exposed. But I'm really nervous of going any further. There's wires all over the place. Ive already lost one heater control tab (where the feck I'll never know??!!

) and I'm definately out of my depth.

So as I'm pretty certain it's only the bearing that's seized could I cut the top off the plastic housing using a dremel?
Ideally bevel cut a panel off the top to get lubrication to bearing and then use a tool to rotate blades. Then silicone the plate back on?

Any ideas or views? Or am I being a big girlie blouse

Post by **Hacksawbob** » 11 Sep 2008, 06:22

I think it is a shade for the rear of an indicator light so light doen't spill out possible the handbrake light?

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 11 Sep 2008, 18:20

Yup - handbrake light shade.

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 11 Sep 2008, 21:06

Maxstu, is the motor seized? Try WD40 (you can see motor from forward facing side) and give it a spin by hand then connect and see if motor actually functions before trying to get it out.

Post by **maxstu** » 11 Sep 2008, 21:48

Hi CovKid and H/Bob,

Aha! I can see where you mean. Yes reflector for handbrake bulb.

Many thanks......

I believe the motor is lacking lubricant. It started squeeling. Packed up then chucked up it's fuse. I replaced fuse. Initially it started then sounded laboured then did the fuse again.

So if I remove the retaining bolts I can access from front side against
inside of bonnet

if that's understandable? And get to spin blade by hand.
Will delve deeper tomorrow then .........

And please let me use this opportunity to thank you for some inspiring reading.

I too intend to roller my van early next year and your writings have been an absolute revelation.

Hope you shake your hand one of these days

Post by **Stefvan** » 12 Sep 2008, 07:32

If it siezes up/blows fuses again then this place has blower motors for £23
http://www.veedubmachine.co.uk/index.ph ... cts_id=270 I wish I'd just replaced my motor right away, I was worried becaue I couldn't get the heater clips (now defunkt AFAIK) and as it turned out with liberal squirts of PlusGas the motor only ran for a day and the dash/matrix had to come out twice... which as you are prolly finding is a pig of a job. And it turns out the heater clips aren't essential if you have the right adhesive/sealer. I got my blower from GSF and it was more like £65.... but your mileage may vary...

Stefvan

Post by **maxstu** » 14 Sep 2008, 21:07

Hi Stefvan,

Thanks for the info. Will keep the link for future use.

I got the fan running after masssive doses of WD40 and a bit of prodding of the blades with a screw driver after cutting a panel off the side of the plastic molding.

Firstly I drilled a hole to see how much of a gap between molding and blower motor. About 10mm. So I then got the dremel out and with a very small cutting wheel removed about a 3"x3" panel to the right hand side.

This gave me access to the motor. More WD40 and more spinning until all three blow speeds gave a noiseless even pitch.

Then using mastic replaced the panel I had cut away.

However, it was more likely an obstruction that caused it failure as it seems spot on now. I kept testing it for few days before assembling dash again.

Next time will be a lot easier me thinks.

Thanks