Sister7

My '86 is Lump the Superwagon- from the President's song "Mud flowed up into Lump's pajamas She totally confused all the passing piranhas" "Life limped along at subsonic speeds" The '81 and '82 don't have names yet....

I would check to see if you have voltage at the blower motor. If there's no voltage and your fuses are fine (there 3 for the blower, #1, #2, and something else), it's probably the relay. The relay is located up under the steering wheel, next to the other relays (4 total). I don't remember the wire colors, I just know it's not the black ones. I've had two of these buggers go out on me in the last year. There's a good writeup about blower motor problems in the USRM.

Awesome, thank you!

Just wondering what front fenders are compatable with my '81 wagon. Would sedan or hatch fenders fit? Are there other years that used the same front fenders? Thanks in advance!

Pretty much what I was thinking, thanks. Hmmm....I have visions of what my weekend is going to look like...

I recently aquired an '81 wagon that was overheating. It would get hot and stay hot, not matter what- idling, highway, etc. I started by testing the t-stat, which was bad. I hooked the cooling system back up without a tstat, and ran it for a little while to see if it would still overheat. I got lots and lots of small bubbles in the coolant- enough for it to get foamy. Head gaskets were my first thought with all of thoes bubbles, so I ran a block test on it for combustion gases, which turned out negative. However, I'm not sure how good the block tester is- it's the $40 Napa variety with blue test fluid. As the coolant was foaming, the car started getting hot again, so I shut her down (total running time was 5-10 minutes). All in all, the bubbles displaced about 1 quart of coolant. The gar doesn't have any other signs of HG failure- no crap in the oil, no white smoke, not losing coolant, etc, and it wasn't making foam until I messed with the tstat. Could it just be air stuck in the coolant system? As of now my plan is to put the new tstat in, flush the coolant system really well to make sure nothing is plugged, and to run a compression test, is there anything else I can do to track down the problem? Thanks in advance!

Just saying "hi" for the first time. I've been reading the board for several months now, but was avoiding posting because I was afraid I would enter the land of no return....but I fear that that's already happend, so I figured why not! I have 3 soobs right now, an '81, '82, and an '86 ....all 4x4 gl wagons...all needing some fixing. I'm sure I'll have some questions in the near future, this site rocks! Anna