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Offline carguy87

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Blower Motor Resistor
« on: January 25, 2012, 10:33:26 AM »
Anyone know where you can buy a new bower motor resistor? I am tired of no low speed, and I would like to get new, so I don't have to tear apart the dash again in the future. Also, my car has factory installed AC, and I was wondering if there are any heat vents to the floor. G/F's most recent complaint is her feet are always cold and the heat is too stifling hot, lol.

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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 12:55:49 PM »
Shut the upper vents and the package tray vents to direct more heat to the floor.
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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2012, 08:06:40 PM »
Make sure the squid release is closed.
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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 09:15:29 PM »
Yeah, I keep the fresh air vent closed until spring.  I did a little digging around during lunch and found a couple problems.  There is a cable that controls a door for the lower two vents on top of the transmission tunnel.  It opens the vents when in "heat" half open in "high-low" and closed in "defrost".  When I move the switch in my car, it adjusts the other doors in the box properly, but is not actuating the cable for the lower door.  So I manually opened the door with the car on and fan running to see if it was working and was greeted by a blast of old leaves, carpet padding, twigs, and somehow, a figurine of a small monkey.  I then had to dig about another handful of debris out from the door area with a coat hanger to get in the tight area.  After I did that, heat seemed to work good from the lower vents, just have to fix my control head for automatic operation, lol.

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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 06:16:31 AM »
Ahhh the obvious we forgot to mention.   Those cables do get out of whack once in a while.  I know that mine came off in the SX/4.
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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 04:26:21 PM »
Darn monkeys :rotfl:
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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2012, 10:10:38 PM »
Darn monkeys :rotfl:

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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2012, 06:58:40 PM »
Fixed this little demon. When I pulled the resistor, I found that the low speed resistor coil had melted and stuck itself to the medium speed coil, creating higher resistance on the medium and no flow on low speed.  For a temporary fix, I was able to put what was left of the low speed coil, half was left, back to where a wire was sticking up that the missing part was attached to.  I then twisted the two together and crimped for a tight hold.

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Re: Blower Motor Resistor
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2012, 03:02:31 PM »
The resistor should be the same as that year of Jeeps
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