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She's playing a little hard to get with me lately. As a follow-up to Monday's USB win I was treated with a bit of a perplexing issue the following day. Pulled the blower motor (easy peasy), blew it off with some shop air, and tried squirting a little lube where I could without taking it apart. Plugged it back in and got no fan. Nothing. Well shit... Was getting late so I half-ass trouble shot it by checking the relay and fuse. Both were fine. So from my understanding of the system, the only things left that it could be are the resistor (which can be failure prone) and the motor itself.Since the motor was the only thing I touched, I ordered a new one out of haste and anger. To make matters worse, instead of ordering a half-price quality aftermarket one, I ordered and OEM one because I could get it before the weekend. Normally I could wait, but I wanted it done before the weekend so that I could use the truck with the family.Motor came in yesterday and just for ***** and giggles, I decided to touch the old motor to 12v to test it and of course, it worked... So it's not the motor. Under the expectation that the new motor wouldn't run either after I plugged it in and that my problem was elsewhere, I plugged it in and tested it AND IT WORKED!! WTF?? So yeah, this ones got me a little baffled. Oh well. Everything works as it should. New motor is nice and quite and I shouldn't have to worry about it for a long time. I'm just about $130 poorer. On to the next.
She's playing a little hard to get with me lately. As a follow-up to Monday's USB win I was treated with a bit of a perplexing issue the following day. Pulled the blower motor (easy peasy), blew it off with some shop air, and tried squirting a little lube where I could without taking it apart. Plugged it back in and got no fan. Nothing. Well shit... Was getting late so I half-ass trouble shot it by checking the relay and fuse. Both were fine. So from my understanding of the system, the only things left that it could be are the resistor (which can be failure prone) and the motor itself.
Since the motor was the only thing I touched, I ordered a new one out of haste and anger. To make matters worse, instead of ordering a half-price quality aftermarket one, I ordered and OEM one because I could get it before the weekend. Normally I could wait, but I wanted it done before the weekend so that I could use the truck with the family.
Motor came in yesterday and just for ***** and giggles, I decided to touch the old motor to 12v to test it and of course, it worked... So it's not the motor. Under the expectation that the new motor wouldn't run either after I plugged it in and that my problem was elsewhere, I plugged it in and tested it AND IT WORKED!! WTF?? So yeah, this ones got me a little baffled. Oh well. Everything works as it should. New motor is nice and quite and I shouldn't have to worry about it for a long time. I'm just about $130 poorer. On to the next.
