Date:         Fri, 10 Nov 2000 03:36:00 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Front Blower Failure Revisited
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET>
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At 08:36 PM 11/9/2000, John Rodgers wrote:

>Well, today while running on "HIGH" during a pouring rain, the blower
>quit cold. I turned the switch to "Off". When I got to work, I tried it
>on HIGH again. Turned right on.
>
>So, List, what am I looking at here. Switch, Relay, Motor, All of the
>above?

If the wipers still work it ain't the relay.   Could be the motor but
prolly not.  Switch is likely (for high speed intermittent.  Like I told
you (I think it was you...) before, plug the wires into the switch for the
rear blower and see what changes.  The switches are identical.  If you
still have high but not medium or low, suspicion falls on the resistor
which unfortunately *is* located inside the air box.  But if you now have
three speeds then it was the switch.  The intermittent could be a loose
connection or conceivably a bad ground (on one of the tab clusters above
and left of the fuse/relay panel -- or it could quite likely be the switch.

>  And what must I do to get at any of it.

I've written about this over and over in the last year or so --
unfortunately haven't time to dig it out now but it should all be sitting
in the archives.  Can one of you folks I've sent stuff to point this
gentleman in the right direction?

david