I was told if I put 12v to the purple wire on my blower motor I can test it. I tried it and got nothing. There is a capacitor looking thing inline with the purple wire at the blower motor. Do I need to give it 12v after the capacitor or is my motor fried?

 

ttt

 

You can hook a wire right from a 12 volt source to the spade on the motor your probaly looking at removing the motor any way once it's out check it with a ground and a hotlead to a battery, but before you go to the trouble disconnect the ground wire and make sure it has a good connection. I just upgraded to a bigger blower while I had em out I hooked them up to my boat battery just to see the differnce in speed

 

The blower is mounted to a plastic box. There should be a ground wire connected to one of the mounting screws that holds the blower to the box. Make sure the ground is connected and in good shape. If the ground is good and you connect 12 volts to the spade on the motor it should run (if the motor is good). Hope this helps

Neal

 

I am reworking my AC at this point. The fan motor is held in by 5 screws that are easy to get to. Watch out for the ground spade that is attached to one of them, it gets lost easily. I upgraded my blower/motor as jeaux mentioned and it definately is helping with the air flow. If you are interested I have a upgrade spacer I will let you have. The new blower/motor is from a '95 Vette and ran about $60 at NAPA plus the rubber air intake tube is $10 from Chevrolet. If you are interested, I'll find the part no's.

Jeff

 

Thanks for looking into that. As soon as I can get a few hours I will get back to the Blower Motor problem...I need to try to get it to blow to see if its bad. I was hoping it worked and it was just something in the wiring but, I'll have to check that ground.

 

Hate to say this, but other than the capacitor you can toss aside, you will most likely have a motor with a dead spot on the armateur windings, and so it sux at blowing....

GENE

 

Just a few quick question,why did you go with the 95 motor instead of the late 80's style single wire hookup also did you have to enlarge the hole a bit and what did you use for a a spacer? just curious

 

It is my understanding that the '95 has the largest and most aggressive cage/ blades. It should be pushing the most air and still maintains the C3 bolt pattern so it lines right up. I have used both high density polyethylene and nylon. They can both be turned on a lathe. Both are light and don't rot. The hook up is going to be the same for either fan. One uses a spade bolted to the housing and the other has it as part of the plug. I will be running heavier guage lines via the starter lines, so it doesn't matter with mine. The hole does not need to be enlarged. The cage clears easily.

 

I already did mine I did have an issue of the cage rubbing a bit,now I'm wondering if maybe running a larger wire would have helped the old fan

 

The cage is mostly responsible for the greater flow. So just adding more juice won't do it. You will need to pull it back out to test, but put a strip of tape around the lip of the opening. rPut it together and un the fan for a while. find where it rubbed and file that area down a bit.

 

Thats about what I did,thanks