blower motor weirdness

[kneale at knitknacks.com]

I think Huw's right, debris can get sucked through the pathway from the
evaporator box into the squirrel cage area and cause enough drag to cause
your symptoms.  One of my 5K cars had a bunch of stuff dragged into the
squirrel cage by rodents.

> unlikely since the only opening for the motor
> is thru that little vent from the squirrel cage.
> I'll take a peek into the squirrel cage area also.
>
> Can't see much in the motor brush hole but it looks clean.
> There's enough resistance in the turning of the motor that
> low fan speed will not keep the fan running.
> Hi speed is more like normal.
>
> I've sprayed some oil in that hole, but I'm pretty sure
> it's not getting to where it needs to be.
>
> thanks,
>
> Chi
>
> --- On Sat, 11/29/08, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com>
>> Subject: Re: blower motor weirdness
>> To: montesawong at yahoo.com
>> Cc: "AudiFans" <quattro at audifans.com>
>> Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 4:09 PM
>> Could some junk have gotten in there, to stop it from
>> starting properly, and then make it noisy when it does run?
>>
>> Up here it's been leaf-in-the-plenum and
>> acorns-in-the-glovebox season...
>>
>> CL Wong wrote:
>> > Patient: 200q20v
>> > I've been trying to diagnose a non working blower
>> motor.  I did a new blower motor and heater core summer of
>> 2007 and really don't want to pull it all out again.
>> >
>> > Wiring checks out per the bently.  Motor gets voltage
>> when I set the temp to low and the speed on high.  I can see
>> the brush sparking like it wants to start moving but blower
>> motor won't move until I jump start it with a carefully
>> placed screwdriver to start the motor spinning.
>> > I have the blower running right now but it's a bit
>> noisy and not as fast as I would expect.  Can I lube this
>> thing or is something else wrong?
>> >
>> > it worked pretty good last winter and this summer so
>> I'm not sure what could be wrong.
>> >
>> > thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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