100/200/5K Heater blower motor help

[Larry C Leung]

The vendor you speak of is Double Z Motors, on the vendor list. Ask for
Pete (he's a lister too!)

Great deals and helpful guy. Sorry, phone number not handy, check the
vendor list or call information,

Area code 845, city Fishkill, NY, listing Double Z Motors.

As for the trick, lift up the plenum cover (cheapo plastic thing,
careful, easy to rip and expensive to replace) and find the cylindrical
motor on the driver's side (non-UK, Japan) and more important, locate the
rubber 90 degree elbow hose that goes from the blower box into the motor.
Remove hose from motor, exposing brush carrier.

Find something not too agreesive (i.e. pencil) to poke into resulting
hole. Depress firmly (don't hammer), bringing brush back into contact to
commutator.

Turn on car with key, blower should blow.

Repeat as necessary until it doesn't work. Seems to work for a couple of
months or so, at least until winter ends (did we have one?) Expect blower
motor replacement to be an ALL day job, so you might as well do the
heater core while you're at it. I'm sorry I didn't do it then.....

HTH!

LL - NY


From: "Christopher Ritchie" <critchie1 at hotmail.com>
To: quattro at audifans.com
Cc: VwOne8T at aol.com
Subject: Subject: 100/200/5k heater motor help.
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 21:59:13

   I looked under the hood of my 89 100q cause the heater motor
doesn't work
all the time, I am going to replace it, but does anyone know if
I have to
remove the whole black heater box, or is there a trick out there
to do if
fast and easy?

And does anyone have a used motor that's for sale....cheep?
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1. There's lots of stuff on this in the archives.  Search under terms you
think are relevant.  Also search under the term, "steak knife."  You'll
see
why.  It'll answer your question about the trick to do the job fast and
easy.

2. Cheapest you'll find this motor is $90-$100 at that parts dealer in
Fishkill, NY.  I forget their name.  "Double something"?  They're on Ebay
all the time.  Also check the usual vendors.  It's a close to $200 dealer
part.  Do not buy a used one.  The design of these cars is that this
motor
is almost always running.  Anything used is used up.

3. Do you know about the trick to get the motor to run a while longer in
place?  If you don't find it when searching the archives for the steak
knife
technique, let me know.  You can usually get these motors to run for a
few
more months with this quick procedure.