elegant recirc door repair... type 44

[David Head <dave.head@worldnet.att.net>]

Whilst doing the heater core today I decided to clean out the condenser
area in through the recirc door. Of course, this is the time when the
holder for the recirc door vacuum motor decides it has outlived it
usefulness.
Having suffered through this repair with the factory fix (mondo u shaped
bracket), and knowing I would have to order one, yada, yada, yada - I
decided to try the tie wrap repair method mentioned the other day. I
happened to have plenty of the 1/8" wide wraps that fit. Removed
offending vacuum motor, tie wrapped around the mounting location - the
factory mounting tabs on the motor itself provide plenty of anchor. 90
degrees to the tie wrap loop, I placed a tie wrap through the mounted
tie wrap - one each side. Then inserted the vacuum motor, and while
upside down inserted the tie wraps around the two legged (mit broken
center piece) bracket - one per side and cinched them up tight.
Viola! The vacuum motor is re-spacially oriented exactly where it was,
and works perfectly. This job takes 1/10th the time of installing the
factory repair bracket.

This may be hard to visualize - but if you've BTDT with this aggravating
repair the light will come on. Elegant and permanent. It even has the
added advantage of having a bit more flexibility than the factory
mounting. The only downside being that if the motor itself ever fails,
you have to clip the tie wrap to replace it.

Well worth it, considering I would have had to put the whole thing back
together, prop the recirc door 1/2 open, order the part from Linda as
the locals don't have a clue, wait for it to arrive, tear it down, spend
and hour or two drilling the holes by hand to install and putting it all
back together again. No thanks!