79 Blower motor Help
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When you say you bypassed the relay, did you connect the red wire directly to the purple wire? If so, that should run the blower regardless of the brown wire voltage, even with the key in the off position.
check your ground wire, trace it back. It should be grounded at the engine block / bellhousing near the starter motor.
I have heard of some people having issues when the ground has been moved from there to the negative starter motor lug. If it's there move it back to the bellhousing.
I would think if your main power wire has 7v going to the blower it should still spin to some degree like a low speed.
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When you say you bypassed the relay, did you connect the red wire directly to the purple wire? If so, that should run the blower regardless of the brown wire voltage, even with the key in the off position.
Yes, it worked with the red wire jumpered to the purple wire, but when i jumper the brown wire directly to the purple wire nothing happens.
So I tested it without disconnecting the control panel and it read 11.6 volts, so I disconnected the control panel, and it read the same voltage, so I tried to jumper it to the purple wire again and it didn't do anything.
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If you can run 12 volts from the battery to this same purple wire (or connect the red wire on the relay to the purple wire), and the motor spins, then your problem is someplace in the brown wire (maybe try removing the fuse and re-installing it - it's possible that the blades of the fuse or the fuse holder are corroded).
If you can run 12 volts from the battery to this same purple wire (or connect the red wire on the relay to the purple wire), and the motor spins, then your problem is someplace in the brown wire (maybe try removing the fuse and re-installing it - it's possible that the blades of the fuse or the fuse holder are corroded).
I cleaned most of the connections for it when i got the car, and the fuse was the first thing i checked, i just don't have any idea of what to do next.
1. If the blower runs, then continue to step 2. If it does NOT run, then you have a bad connection in the fuse block.
2. Touch the jumper wire to the brown wire on the heater control switch (point B). If the blower does NOT run, then you have a problem between the fuse block and the control switch. If it does run, then your bad wire is between the heater control switch and the relay.
NOTE1: Verify that you are really jumpering to the brown wire, not the tan wire (Sometimes colors can be confused if you're not looking at both side-by-side). My apologies if this seems obvious - just covering all bases.
NOTE2: It's hard to tell from the below diagram where the brown wire splits off, but there might be two brown wires in the same connector at the heater control switch (it's been a while since I had this apart). If there is only a single brown wire at that location, then you'll have to find the location that the wire splits.
P.S. Special thanks to Willcox Corvette for the diagram that I am referring to - hopefully they don't mind me using it.











