Nesting Material in Ventilator Fan

Sep 12, 2004 2 Replies

A few days ago, the ventilator fan in my '99 Sentra GXE began making a sound like a playing card stuck in bicycle spokes. Shortly thereafter, it began making noises like the death rattle of a mastadon with TB. Then it quit entirely. The dealer told me a mouse had built a nest in the duct and wrapped some nesting material around the fan blade. He cleaned it out, replaced a blown fuse, and I was back in business. Well, today it started making the same "card in the spokes" kind of noises. I can't afford roughly $100 bucks every time a mouse decides my heating/cooling system makes a dandy condo. Can anyone tell me how I can get to the fan motor and clean out the nesting material myself?



TIA...


In my 94 Altima, the motor and ducting is behind the glove compartment. I had to take the glove compartment out and the metal frame that it sits in to get at the blower. I'd had the windshield replaced and they must have left a sheet of paper towel in there, it had fallen into the blower motor and it sounded like a biplane whenever I turned the fan on ;)

"JM" wrote in news:hor1d.127477$ snipped-for-privacy@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

Thanks. Same for the '99 Sentra. The dealer even showed me how to get the blower motor out after removing the glove compartment when I begged and pleaded. Unfortunately, by this time, the blower motor had burned out and needs replacement. So do the three cats that allowed my garage to become infested with mice...

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