>The blower in my 83.5 went yesterday aswell.  Burning smell, puff of smoke,
blower no longer operating.
As far as I can tell the blower motor started pulling too many amps causing
a melt down.  Oddly no fuses in panel
were blown. I removed dash tonight but have to wait for light of day to
check wirring.  Looking at wirring diagram and  can't any in-line fuses or
fusable links. I think your best bet is to disasemble and inspect wirring
and test motor. If you find the damaged wires I'm sure you can repair them.
I believe your blower motor probably needs replacing or repair, if possible.
Getting at it is not a right horror show, just a bunch of simple task strung
together. I have a full set of instuctions from Tim Hannink in my files if
you need them.  I'll get back to you p-mail if I solve anything tommorow.
Good luck,  Jim

> At 12:21 PM 12/1/2001, John Baker wrote:
> >Driving down the road yesterday in my 83.5 Water cooled vgon when I
notice
> >the front heater blower does not seem to be blowing very hard.  Start to
> >smell a burning smell, lasts for a few minutes then the blower stops
> >working completely. As this happens, I notice that my high beam\low beam
> >switch on the headlites no longer changes the brightness of the lights.
I
> >also see that when I turn on my turn signals, the headlite indicator dash
> >bulb begins flashing in time with the turn signal, AND my backup lights
> >are staying on whenever the ignition switch is on,  OH SH*T, what did I
> >do.  Drove home and then after checking all the fuses (all appear fine),
I
> >started the bus again and I still have no heater blower or High beams,
but
> >the reverse lights are now off and the headlite indicator dash bulb no
> >longer flashes with the turn signal indicator.  Anyone have any ideas
what
> >I may have fried?? How much of a PITA is it to put in a new heater
blower??
>