Air conditioning

Well......my airconditioning was working great in my 93 IM until this weekend. The blower fan under the dash started making a horrible noise and then quit altogether. It sounded like a typical bearing failure in the motor. Now for the hard part, how do you remove the fan motor assembly from the rest of the unit? And where do I get a new one? Does anyone know if this is a standard VW part or who makes it? I can see how the motor and double squirrel cage fan is attached, but how on earth do you unscrew the assembly while its in the car? Or do I have to remove the the entire unit just to get the fan motor part off?

sorry steve can't help you with the removal (don't have a/c) but once
its out look up an electric motor repair/rebuilder shop they should
be able to help you most bearings are standard sizes. good luck

Why not contact the people at Intermeccanica for some advice?

I have and Henry gave me all the information I needed.....thanks anyway. It shouldn't be too difficult with Henry's help. I try not to bug him if I can figure it out myself, but then I realized I wasn't going to figure this one out myself so I bugged him anyway and I'm off to fix it now.

Once I found the thermal reset and got the motor back on I could see the problem. I mistakenly thought there was an end cap on the fan housing, but what I thought to be an end cap was actually the black stuff they have coated the hoses next to the fan that had melted down into the fan. The other day I left the car out all day in the sun and it was 93 degrees farenheit, and this car had probably never seen those kind of temperatures since it was built. It lived in Seattle before and didn't get driven much. I cleaned out all the black goopy junk and then cleaned each fan blade and wooola it is fixed. Thanks to Henry for steering me in the right direction before I tore the hole thing a part for nothing.

Henry is awesome.....what I thought could be a nightmare was a 15 minute fix....most of that time was spent cleaning between the little fan blades. And YES I do love my air conitioning on those rare occasions that I need it.

I'm still driving it every day!!!!! I love this car more then any other car I have ever owned. But like wives I would consider a trade in for a brand new one if it wasn't so expensive to upgrade.

Oh, I bet your wife would like to read your last post!
Ron

Henry is awesome, but I don't think he takes wives in trade.

Or does he?

Oh she knows that it would cost me a lot to trade her off now....besides I have become attached to her.....my wife that is

Henry doesn't take wives as trade-ins...now you tell me!
Ron

I would offer, but I'm afraid he might be offended or feel ripped off when she came in the mail