BLOWER FAN MISERY - MAPLINS SOLUTION VIABLE?

[mercrocker]

The squeaky bastard heater fan has stopped fanning on my T25.   I dont want to be bollock deep in dashboard-out misery until it stops raining and I can open both doors fully for half a day.   Are those admittedly shitey-looking fans any good that  you see in Maplins and elsewhere?   The T25 has a fuggin big screen and I dont reckon the fag-lighter plugged option will do it but does anybody have contradictory experience/better ideas?

[Squire_Dawson]

[wuvvum]

 

 

 

Simples!

[Cavcraft]

The Maplins ones are feeble to say the least.

[brickwall]

I thought you were going to maplins to build your own resistor pack...

[Grundig]

 

[cobblers]

Check the switch isn't fucked, you can get them new from gsf for a few quid. Those maplin fans are no use really, they just circulate the humid air round rather than fetching in fresh air like the proper fan.

 

Bite the bullet and do the job right, I changed my blower fan in only about an hour - I'd already had the dash out once before and dealt with the tamper bolts on the steering column, but overall its not a bad task and you can do 99% of it with both doors shut, just the final 2 bolts each side and lifting it out will get you wet.

 

You'll literally be blown away by how much better the blowers are once you've cracked the heater box open and taken out 25 years worth of tab ends, leaf litter, dead mice and pubes.

[mercrocker]

Chamois pad - check....Domestic heater option considered (only plugged in at home to warm van up in morning...) Maplins feebility confirmation appreciated and expected, thanks Cav...

Dash out it probably will have to  be unless I am lucky enough to get away with a switch but I doubt it given the squeal that last came out of the blower....

[cobblers]

apparently you can drill a hole in the heater box housing and get n with some wd40 without taking the dash out (I think you get access through the ashtray hole) but I would imagine it's more of a "stop the squeak" type thing than actually getting it turning again.

 

edit: oh and the heater on an extension cord works great, I used to do it before I swapped engines and the old one had no thermostat. Put it on a timer plug to come on an hour before I had to set off for work, it was fuppin amazing.

[Pillock]

Those dash top ones couldn't inflate a ferret's vadge. 

 

One thing you can try is leaving cat litter in there overnight - it'll need changing every month or so but it drastically reduces the amount of condensation in the car so you don't need quite the demisting effort. Our daily has some crazy misting up problem (VAG so probably pollen filters or something), first few weeks with an open bag of kittylitter in there the windscreen was 100% clear every morning.

[tooSavvy]

My 9k ate the 'speed resistor'... full blast only. I found a 9k and snaffled the plug in part. Lasted 5mins.

 

Fiat Cinq has a resistor pack which sticks straight out of the heater ducting, easy to spot.

 

I glued it into the duff saab 'plug-in'....... never a moments bothha

 

 

TS

[Richard]

A hot water bottle on top of the dashboard helps keep the chill off. I had to do that on my Avenger as an alternative to just fixing the damn thing.

[mercrocker]

Got an oil-filled rad I plug in to an all-weather socket.  It works a treat in the Minor as it stays warm till I get to work.   Might try the kitty litter idea to rid the Minor of the dampness  that comes of daily use in the current monsoonage.    Trouble is the T25 lives out front of the house and its hard  to  get socketed up out there although I do have a hook-up, its just asking for trouble to have a mains cable dangling across the pavement... Nah, I will  have to drop the dash at some point, theres a load of info on the T25 wiki about getting lubrication into the fan bearings but I am just a bit suspicious that mine has borked completely.