buzzing/squeal from climate control?

[Kneale Brownson]

It's the aspirator fan for the cabin temperature sensor behind the little 
grille in the center of Type 44 dashes.  Steve's already looking for 
replacement options.


At 10:10 PM 05/30/2001 -0400, WAUFX at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 5/28/01 3:23:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>ankneys at hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Listers,
> >  Last night on the way home I noticed a slight buzzing sound coming from
> >  behind the climate control area. This noise would stop when the climate
> >  control was turned off. After awhile the buzzing turned into a loud
> >  squeal/grinding noise. Almost sound like a small fan with a bad bearing.
> >  Turning off the CC and restarting it seemed to make it go away, At least
>for
> >
> >  awhile. The noise would come and go at random. What is causing this 
> noise?
> >  Is the CC head shot? Is there some relay behind the CC head that is
>causing
> >  this? Please give me some ideas...
>
>
>well.....and the following is not a joke...
>
>maybe it's a dirty paper towel!
>
>I left one under the hood of my 86 4kq, in that quasi-storage area on the
>passenger's side of the area that houses the wiper motor, on the side of that
>plastic black cover...and found it blowing through my fresh air vent about a
>week later!! i always knew that it sucked leaved in during fall and spit them
>out at me, but never knew she was capable of devouring an entire greasy paper
>towel. grr. it made a horrendous noise similar to the one you describe the
>first few times it spit stuff out at me, nwo it's an occasional growl. i also
>had to remove the mouvers to pull some of the larger, less-digested pieces
>out. did you ever put anything there, no matter how big or small, that
>possible got sucked in?
>
>megan
>