Re: type 44 blower motor brushes

["Kurt Wesseling" <kurt.wesseling@nexusmgmt.com>]

Steve:

Being a cheapskate, I did this on my '87 5KTQ.  Took it to an electric motor
shop first.  They couldn't find the correct brushes, so they gave it back to
me.  I thought, "dummies." I then went to an electric supply house and
bought some brushes whose size was as close as they could find to what I
had.  They didn't fit, so I filed them down until they did fit and installed
them on the blower motor.  Took a bit of soldering.

It's worked fine ever since.  Seems like the motor may not spin as fast as
it did originally, but it certainly moves a lot of air.  Total cost was
under $10.00.

..course you *still* gotta take that stinkin' motor out !


HTH,

--Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Bigelow <sbigelow@sprint.ca>
To: quattro <quattro@audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 2:18 PM
Subject: type 44 blower motor brushes


> Has anyone replaced just the brushes in their blower motor? The bearing
seem
> fine, no noise, but the brushes seem to be intermitant....when I press on
> the reachable one, the motor runs..for a while.
>
> Any BTDT's?
>
> Steve Bigelow
> Ottawa ON
> 1984 5000s
>
>