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Offline Zoro

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Stronger blower motor?
« on: October 06, 2018, 01:54:42 PM »
The blower motor in my 84 just gave up the ghost. Is there anything out there that pushes more air the  the factory unit?

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Offline mudkicker715

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Re: Stronger blower motor?
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2018, 11:30:42 PM »
I seem to recall someone maybe said a blazer would push more air, idk what year. That said, it should spin at the same rpm? So the gerbil cage must be a bit different. Also out of all my amcs my 84 always could kick me out on high on the coldest of days. However its a sedan with less than 100 thousand. The others were wagons. Just thinking a new fan motor is not struggling  to spin. So maybe thats the key, old sucks and new is good.



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Re: Stronger blower motor?
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2018, 12:11:02 AM »
That makes sense. I got mine right at 200K and it never seemed to move a ton of air but it did the job. Almost 300K and it gave up the ghost.
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Offline vangremlin

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Re: Stronger blower motor?
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2018, 03:53:43 PM »
I believe that the thought that a fan from a blazer would work was proven to be incorrect.  I don't know of another fan that will drop in to replace the factory fan.  Maybe a new fan would work better than one with 300K on it?
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Offline DAVE

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Re: Stronger blower motor?
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2018, 10:32:10 AM »
this happened to me and I replaced with a generic replacement motor from the "zone" hardly moved any air. went to a junk yard used one, I am going to try a different motor supposed to have higher rpm, I want something to compare to modern car blower output. but also could be the duct doors are restricting due to improper adjustment

Offline mo.eagles

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Re: Stronger blower motor?
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2018, 04:12:04 PM »
My 3rd wagon (Thing 2) did not move very much air . I finally pulled the fan out and found the air box full of rat nest. 
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