Date:         Sun, 8 Sep 2002 23:14:36 +0200
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: [FIX] Front Heater Switch - Caution
Comments: To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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Hi,

My question to you is...

did your switch upgrade fix the problem?

I have tried two used switches in mine, and I have what seems to be the same
thing going on in mine.

I hit the low and medium speeds on the switch, and the fan does not move, or
strains and tries to move... hit high speed and it spins!!

I had the same thing happening on my golf and had to replace a 35 dollar
resistor in the blower motor (on the advice of the VW mechanic) and it still
did not work.  I pulled the blower, and it was a mess.... I managed to take
it apart as much as it would allow, and lubed it up good... afterwards, it
ran no problem on all speeds, with the old resistor installed too!

So now I would like to know if I need to rip the entire dash off and dive in
to do a lube on my Vanagon blower motor.  I do not want to, as I have been
tweaking things all summer and I finally just want to put it all back
together inside and drive it a bit.

The strange thing is that if  I run the blower in high speed, and THEN
switch down to medium... it runs in medium... and then if I switch down to
low... and it runs in low.

Makes me really think that the motor is just crapped up, and needs that
extra voltage to bust through,  and actually spin.

Any comments or advice will be sincerely appreciated.

RSF

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Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 10:29 PM
Subject: [FIX] Front Heater Switch - Caution


> I just replaced the front blower switch on my 88 GL. The motor would run
> only on the "HI" position and you could hear it trying in the other two,
> but it just would not run.