I have a '75 Pinto Runabout. Recently the blower motor for the AC started making horrible noises and keeps blowing fuses instead of air. I assume a bearing or something has gone out. I went to take the motor out, and it appears to be pretty buried in the dash so I didn't make the attempt. Can anyone tell me if you have to remove the dash to get to this fan? I replaced one in a Ford Explorer a while back and it took all of 5 minutes. I really hope this isn't as much of a pain as it appears. Also, where can I find a replacement for something like this? Everyday parts for this thing are getting hard to find, I can imagine how hard it will be to find a fan motor.
thanks.
Thats an easy 1 unlike a 73. Take out glove box, remove dash suport, remove blower. Sounds like brushes are worn if you can get motor apart buy new brushes clean comutator off and good to go. Fred :)
Quote from: Fred Morgan on September 15, 2008, 02:16:11 PM
Thats an easy 1 unlike a 73. Take out glove box, remove dash suport, remove blower. Sounds like brushes are worn if you can get motor apart buy new brushes clean comutator off and good to go. Fred :)
Thanks Fred. That does sound easy. I am sure glad I don't have to take out the dash. ;D
With very minor adaptation blower motors are one of the easiest things to adapt in cars. So, don't worry about the "rarity" of such items. I'm doing a Turbo '73 Pinto and this has the blower motor in the engine compartment. The elongation of two screw holes and reversing the two wires was all it took to install a MGB motor and fan in the Pinto.
The motor is about half as long (good for Turbo manifold clearance), the fan about 20% smaller and has to be run backwards! Still it blow air just fine. Frankly, I engineer with imagination and trial and error. I don't care much for those new fangled things called..., oh.., yea., - slide rules. ;D
Tom
P.S. Fall is starting in some parts of the country (100 degrees here in So. Cal. this week). You may have leaves and twigs jamming the fan.
Tom that sounds great and I like modifying. Any way I could get a picture. Fred :) still over 100 deg here but dont tell anyone out there or they will start showing up with there water magets and we dont like those ;D
Fred,
I posted this a while back. This is the link:
http://www.fordpinto.com/smf/index.php/topic,9993.msg62199.html#msg62199
And ya, know what? Just the other day I slotted the 90 degree part of the exhaust that houses the O2 sensor. While that allowed me better clearance with the exhaust, it did move the sensor closer to the fan motor. Glad I had the room!
Tom
Good info guys.
thanks again