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I have a 92 legacy, two weeks the heater blower died, it had a noise for the last 5 years, Last week I replaced it with a used unit, that I cleaned up and relubed the the shaft bearing area with some grease it ran great for a week. today that motor is now dead. Is there something that could make this motor go bad, the fuses are ok. Before I spend 80 on a retail motor I thought I would ask. or is it bad luck?

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No, if the motor is on a fuse wouldnt that regulate any overvoltage. thank you

 

Fuses protect electrical devices by limiting the current through the device and circuit, not voltage.

 

If the blower motor doesn't work at any speed then check to see if voltage is getting to each side of the motor connections using chassis ground as the meter reference and with the speed switch set to high. If you have 12 volts on each side of the motor leads then you most likely need to replace the resistor pack that is mounted on the air duct. If there is voltage only seen on one of the motor leads then the motor is bad.

 

The way the circuit is designed is fused power goes to a relay, then through the motor, through the speed switch, and then to ground.

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You might want to check your alternator. When the internal regulator goes haywire your alternator will produce far to much current and systematically start burning up electrical component's. My son in law had a 1985 ea82 wagon that was burning out stuff. He installed a different alternator and had no further problem's.

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No, if the motor is on a fuse wouldnt that regulate any overvoltage. thank you

 

That's not how fuses work. Fuses limit current (amperage) by burning out. Check the fuse for the fan. If its blown, it's probably because the fan was pulling too many amps, which means its not any better off than the old squeaky one.

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I now remember that about 2 years ago the fan had a problem where it would not work when the car first started up but after a few bumps it would work fine. For the last year it was ok every day.

 

When I replaced the old fan 2 weeks ago it was totally dead, I plugged the new one in and it ran fine, so I that the old issue is related to the current problem but I cant be sure.

 

I will have a voltmeter tomorrow, do I test the voltage across the plug? Does it vary with the fan settings? Will also test the resistor, it says to test across the contacts, but which ones? I think there were 4 or 5 of them, just pick one and test the others against it? Thank you for your help, I need it!:eek:

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An easy way to check the voltage going to the blower is to check it at the fuse. Place the common probe of the meter to a good ground point on the chassis and the other probe on one of the slits on the top of the fuse. Don't worry about checking the voltage across the resistors. If the blower doesn't work then check the voltage at the motor connections while the blower is connected. See if there is voltage on the leads using ground as your reference and checking one lead at a time. If there is not voltage getting to the leads then the blower relay needs to be checked. If both leads have about 12 volts on them then the trouble is most likely with the resistor pack. If only one lead has voltage getting to it then the motor is bad. You could also verify the motor by applying power directly to it from the battery.

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I have the wrong part, I liked it since it was 8$ , the correct part is 90. Its r6154 , I am going to check the plug pattern before ordering

 

Later that day> plug pattern was wrong so I ordered part from local subie dealer. They used vin to find part so hopefully it solves my issue.

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Well hopefully you haven't jumped the gun in ordering parts that you haven't yet proved are bad.

 

The info I am looking at shows there are a few relays in the upper far left side of the dash area. The blower relay should be one of them. I assume that when you made the voltage test that you had the fan switch turned on to some sort of speed setting, otherwise the test isn't valid.

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I did the test at least 3 times, there is no voltage to the fan. I checked the fan resistor per the manual and it was ok. The wiring diagram shows a bl/red wire that goes to the relay from fan. I can follow it up to a large mass of wires where it looks like it turns left. Yes there are two plastic small boxes right next to eachother one has 2 or 3 wires the other has 5 so I guess I will find out when I get the part. The fan wire is fairly thick but the wires to these boxes is much thinner, hope it does not matter.

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