Further to my previous email, I am now getting *hot* air at highway speed. I guess I never should have kicked it...sigh...
Hey Group,
>
> My blower motor recently stopped working on my 1986 300SDL. Looked at some
> of the previous posts and I'm a little confused. I want to access the
> motor, but need to know how. And I need someone to explain it to me like
> I'm a five year old. To start:
>
> At highway speed there is a little airflow. I can hear the A/C kick in and
> feel the cold air from the vents, and the same with hot air when I adjust
> the temp dial.
>
> I have banged, slapped, and kicked the dashboard, the centre console, the
> underside of the glovebox, and the passenger seat floor area. No change. >
> I have wiggled the key in the ignition. Nothing.
>
> Following some instructions in a previous post, I removed the floor mats
> from the passenger side footwell. on the angled wall that slants up from
> the floorboard to the engine wall there is a black plastic cover plate. It
> did not have four plastic screws as I expected. It only had one in the
> middle at the bottom. I undid that and found another plate with two silver
> boxes on the right and one black plastic box on the left. I couldn't
> believe that this black box was the fan motor so I undid the four brass
> circle things holding this plate in place but there was nothing underneath
> it. Is the black box indeed the blower motor? There are two multi-pin
> connections on the side of this box and both have the cables pulled out - it
> looks like it was done intentionally and some time ago. So can you please
> answer the following questions:
>
> 1) Where is the blower motor and how exactly do I remove it to check the > "brushes"?
>
> 2) What is that black box?
>
> 3) What do those multi-pin connectors on that black box do? Are they
> supposed to be disconnected (disabling the airbag, perhaps)?
>
> Thanks very very much in advance...I'd love to be a D.I.Y'er on this but I'm
> just lost right now...
>
> Thanks again.
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