[AT] Autos-Was:refusing to replace old equipme

Stephen Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 06:06:37 PST 2008


Farmer:

Perchance the wrong blower was somehow related to AC vs. no AC?
Guessing, perhaps, you have no AC but the fact that AC is so common in
general that's the only readily available blower....


SO

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Indiana Robinson
<robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I would have liked to have gotten hold of the neck of the
> total idiot that decided that Astro vans after 1996 should have a
> heavy plastic "acoustical shield" over the heater blower. It only
> blocks the noise if you are standing outside of the van. The "book"
> says to cut it out at the ribs, so does the shield itself. they might
> have well said sprout wings and fly to Mars... I finally got the side
> next to the engine cut but reaching the other side was just a dream. I
> finally got  few scratches in it and got mad enough to put on a glove
> and grab with pliers and rip it out section at a time. After I got the
> fan out I was able to trim it to shape.  The book also said that you
> had to remove the squirrel cage to get it out as it would not clear.
> They were wrong, it slipped out easily. Next I found that I had the
> wrong new blower. It matched the book at National and Paul called
> around town trying to find one close for me and the other parts places
> all showed the same number but it was not the right one. The terminals
> were wrong, the hole for the cooling hose was wrong and the cage was
> not tall enough (Or wide enough depending on how you look at it). Paul
> finally was able to find the right blower # (Proliance 5137) and of
> course it was about $20 higher than the wrong one.
> :-)
> He found it at two warehouses, one in Cleveland and one somewhere in
> Texas. He said it might take at least three days or more (they can
> usually get me even oddball parts the same or next day). Since it is
> going to drop down to about 4 degrees this week I didn't really want
> to be without the van and I didn't want to use it without heat I
> jury-rigged the wrong fan in today and will just eat the cost of the
> wrong one. At about $25 it is a lot cheaper than renting a car.
> :-)
> It is working fine and I probably won't change it until after
> Christmas or even new years. I'm switching it with a new headlight
> switch I bought for the Fergie TO-20 and had not used yet.
> I used the Fergie a few minutes today and even soaking wet it fired
> right up. I moved the Super MTA and the Super M too. All kicked right
> off in spite of a heavy rain last night and a heavy fog and high wet
> winds this morning.
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
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