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

[chris chambers]

Took me 2 1/2 hours to complete, I'm not positive that's the write up I 
followed. 

I do know that I did not cut anything when I did mine.

HTH
Chris




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From: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
To: chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: JC <jc at j2c3.com>; mtgadbois at aol.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Sun, June 27, 2010 10:47:31 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fwd: Squealing chipmunks (in dash vent)


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
>
> 
>
>
>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: 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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