[s-cars] Fwd: Squealing chipmunks (in dash vent)

[Robert Myers]

Hot Damn!  Thanks, Chris.  This is exactly what I had remembered 
seeing once before many years ago.  Looks like an all day job, huh?  ;-)


At 10:38 PM 6/27/2010, chris chambers wrote:
>btdt no steak kniffe required
>
><http://www.elektro.com/~audi/audi/blowerfix.html>http://www.elektro.com/~audi/audi/blowerfix.html
>
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>
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>From: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
>To: JC <jc at j2c3.com>
>Cc: mtgadbois at aol.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
>Sent: Sun, June 27, 2010 10:26:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fwd: Squealing chipmunks (in dash vent)
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>JC, I like your suggested "cure" even better.  Just leave it alone
>and let it get over the illness, eh?  :-D
>
>I have also heard of the so-called "steak knife" technique.  Anybody
>have a good write up?
>
>Bob
>
>
>At 10:21 PM 6/27/2010, JC wrote:
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> >Haven't chimed in since I've not BTDT myself and was waiting for somebody
> >who did to ring in, but I also have the occaisional blower motor squeal on
> >and off (as others have noted seems worst when cold) and as a result I did
> >some research on the topic.
> >
> >Three key messages I dug out of my research:
> >
> >- Yes "proper" blower R&R is a huge deal requiring extensive dash and
> >under-cowl work, and apparently really sucks.
> >
> >- Some have had luck with the 'spray and pray', specifically by carefully
> >drilling little access holes in just the right spot in the blower housing
> >under the cowl (fraught with danger and hard to be sure exactly where best
> >spot is to drill...)
> >
> >- A couple of guys have done frankenblower R&R by cutting the housing open
> >under the cowl, then devising a way to screw it back together and seal it up
> >afterwards.
> >
> >Oddly enough after being really bad a year or two ago, mine seems to have
> >relented and healed itself... HVAC all working fine and seldom if ever get
> >the noise.  Can't explain it, except that at one point I did tighten the
> >clamps around the housing that are accessible under the cowl and maybe that
> >helped somehow...
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Robert Myers
> > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:53 AM
> > > To: <mailto:mtgadbois at aol.com>mtgadbois at aol.com
> > > Cc: <mailto:s-car-list at audifans.com>s-car-list at audifans.com
> > > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fwd: Squealing chipmunks (in dash vent)
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark,  I was hoping you'd say just spray away with that can
> > > of Kroil.  Sounds not that easy.  Oh well... Looks like maybe
> > > I have another job for one day this summer (one week this
> > > summer?). Maybe I can just replace the brushes. Hafta take a
> > > good look-see.
> > >
> > > B.
> > >
> >
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