my heater is on the fritz... S.O.S.

BillBoard

yeah so my heater is on the fritz...

symptoms:

Does not blow air-
when hit bump or pot hole it will turn on for a second- but still weak
took out center consol and made sure everything was hooked up correctly
checked fuses
i got nothin...

Has anyone ever had this problem?
is there a Blower that is replaceable?
something about a heater core?

please help- im freezing my ass off down here...

quarters

that is almost definitely your blower. the blower is located underneath the glovebox and to the right. try kicking/punching it a few times (pretty hard) and see if it turns on/off. if it does, you know your blower motor is toasted or you have a bad connection. or beat the hell out of it until it starts working... it will start working eventually, right?

good luck, those blowers suck to change. you need little rubber hands/arms.

BillBoard

awesome...

i'll check it out tommorrow...
umm is the glove box an easy dismantle...

thank you...
i hope your right

Haydz

I have exactly the same issue and its definately the blower. I throw drink bottles at mine to make it work (i don't have my glovebox in the car at the moment).

akiraboy

moderate PITA to work on, need to pull the glove box & part of the carpeting back

BillBoard

What is PITA?

so i took out my glove box and am now reduced to beating the shit out of the white box, it turns the blower on but sounds very unhealthy...
im not sure what is the actual blower?
not sure what needs replacing?

i still need help-
any one ever replace a blower motor?
or know what it looks like?

lalunette

BillBoard wrote:

What is PITA?

Bread you can use to make sandwiches??? LOL !!

Seriously thought, I don't know what PITA refers to either. Please clarify.

quarters

PITA = Pain In The Ass... and he couldn't be more right. anything under the dash is usually a pain in the ass.

last week i changed my steering colum joint + pedal box/assembly. serious PITA.

Haydz

mmmm... Pita bread. cut 1cm off the top and stuff with avocado, tomato, fat free ham and cheese. Season with pepper and EAT!

haha but yeah, P.I.T.A = Pain in the Arse, as said.

The white unit is what contains the heater fan.

wagodizzle

BillBoard

Awesome thanks for the clarification cause i was like what in the hell is PITA- i thought it was some sort of part i may need or something...
but ya- this blower is a huge pain in the ass...
im rolling around with no glove box and swerving all over the road as i try to hit the blower with my fist/cellphone/remote/anything near and around me..
it totally works after you give it a beat down...

akiraboy

:roll: eh you guys are a pita

wagodizzle

akiraboy wrote:

:roll: eh you guys are a pita

bwagon

so can the blower be removed without removing the dash or discharging the a/c?

Haydz

Absolutely! remove the glovebox and the little kick panel below it and behind that assembly you should see a big black box connected to a big white cylindric enclosure. The white cylindric enclosure is the blower. The black box is the A/C system components which you don't wanna touch.

lalunette

Pacifier wrote:

The black box is the A/C system components which you don't wanna touch.

Cool, we have a "black box" in our cars...

akiraboy

I love how 'off topic' you guys can get
speaking of which

is it possible that the blower motor can get weaker over time?

Haydz

I'd say yes to items like the bearings.

akiraboy

or maybe the brushes right?
I'm thinkin its gettin weaker
will blower motors from any EF work on a wagon?
I used a HF blower on igotcrx's wagon?

will any NON EF blower motors workin

BillBoard

so heater motors are exchangable? meaning i can use one from a crx, civic sedan or hatch or even a accord??

Stily1

Mine died on Thursday, just sort of spooled down and then stopped. I pounded on it and it came back to life, once and briefly, and then totally died, and I think I saw sparks. Worn brushes?

I'm in Canada and picked up an aftermarket blower motor for just over CDN$100. I'm in the process of trying to figure out how to replace it. I'm encouraged by what I've read here. I already had the glove box off and the bracket behind that, but need my real wrenches to remove a large bolt way at the back. I'm hopefull that with that removed, along with the clips in the front of the white enclosure (as it's been called here), the whole blower assembly will come apart (drop the bottom half). It appears one will need to do this to get the motor out, since there's a nut on the top of the blower fan that will make it impossible to remove the motor from the fan by dropping it down from the dash assembly.

I'll try to post some pics tomorrow.

bam-bam

Wow, here's a thread from the dead

Stily1, remove the whole blower housing from the car, THEN take it apart.

ragenasian

Huh whuh it was only over 2 years old

89ac_EE2

ive replaced two blower motors now just take the glovebox off and youll see a mesh thing and you can see the blower wheel through it i just cut that out and then unbolted the wheel from the motor leaving it in the heater box then yanking the motor out.....easy breezy

The_Head

I just tried mine today and in 1 or 2 its fine, but 3 or 4 it won't work.
:x

The_Head

I take it back. 3 and 4 work when the car gets warmed up.

stampern

Hey, billboard, yes you can pull just the motor box out without pulling the dash. It's a pain, but I've done it. Your wagon has a/c doesn't it. Might make it a little harder to do. If you have any questions I'll send ya me phone in a PM. Text me anytime.

ragenasian

Billboard doesn't even own that wagon anymore.

bam-bam

ragenasian wrote:

Billboard doesn't even own that wagon anymore. This thread is over 2 years old!

Ahh, can't complain about that... everyday I see people excoriated for not searching first .

ragenasian

stampern wrote:

Hey, billboard, yes you can pull just the motor box out without pulling the dash. It's a pain, but I've done it. Your wagon has a/c doesn't it. Might make it a little harder to do. If you have any questions I'll send ya me phone in a PM. Text me anytime.

I am referring to this post not the others bam-bam

Stily1

Wellllllll! I got mine replaced today. Bam-bam, actually I was wrong, the fan does come out the same hole as the motor, if you can make the turn against the flippin' floor of the cabin. I had removed most of the mounting hardware for the whole assembly before I figured this out, so the extra wiggle room gained may have been necessary, but I did not have to remove the whole unit to remove the blower motor.

Bottom line is, I installed a new blower motor and reinstated the dash/glovebox and it works like stink! Took all of my specialist wrenches/extensions/knuckle-bits to do it, though, and I did strip one screw (must pay special care to "righty tighty, lefty loosy" when upside down under the dash, dammit!). Turs out two out of three screws is good enough.

I'd attach some photos, but they're too large for this forum and I lack a good photo resizer.