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

[JC]

See... I knew somebody more knowledgable than me would cough details if I
got the ball rolling!

That steak knife procedure however is really just a version of the
'official' procedure and not the full franken-blower-access-panel hack job
that some have done.

OK I suppose now I owe it to fire up the googlator and send the real
linkz...

Here's a thread for the chop-job fix... Note further down in the thread
somebody says you don't need to cut the housing but can just pull it over
enough to work... I'm skeptical about how doable/easy that is, but looking
at these pics again, am perhaps warming to the idea of the
chop-an-access-panel approach.  I think I could do an even slicker job of
the re-assembly than the OP (I would fab up a fiberglass panel over the top
for instance rather than a strip of galvie...)
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?p=23795492

Here's the drill-'n'-spray-and-pray idea... although no good pics sadly... I
thought there used to be some but perhaps they've fallen off the edge of teh
interwebz.
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?t=2170358

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of chris chambers
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:39 AM
> To: Robert Myers; JC
> Cc: mtgadbois at aol.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fwd: Squealing chipmunks (in dash vent)
>
> btdt no steak kniffe required
>
> http://www.elektro.com/~audi/audi/blowerfix.html
>
>  
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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
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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:
> >*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r)
> >Pro* 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-----
> > > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Robert Myers
> > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:53 AM
> > > To: mtgadbois at aol.com
> > > Cc: 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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