As a side note the "WD" in WD-40 stands for water disbursement. It was
originally created to get moisture out of places it should not be.

If it moves, and it doesn't
then WD-40
If it moves and it shouldn't
Use Duck Tape

Kurt

91 Carat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Knight" <bill.knight@USA.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: A radical idea

> How about a small access hole on each side of the housing
> where the bearings are located so you could periodically
> shoot some WD40 in there to clean the bearings.  I found
> WD40 to work nicely on the rear heater blower motor, that
> the problem of it overloading and squealing was simply due
> to dirty bearings.  A few well aimed sprays has made that
> blower work like new for three years now.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Timothy Lee Harrison
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:58 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: A radical idea
>
>
> On Monday 10 Dec 2001 4:57 pm, John Baker wrote:
>
> > possible to get to the blower motor from above? Putting
> all aesthetics
>
> 'Fraid not. The heater blower is encased in a plastic
> housing that's
> sealed by (plastic) welds. It's easier to get the whole
> casing from a
> wreck and replace that, rather than take it to bits and then
> have to clamp
> it back together again, although I'd certainly attempt that
> if I had to!
>
> > out of mind (I can hide the panel with a creative dash
> covering), what
> > do you guys think about this hare-brained scheme?
>
> Nothing wrong with cutting an access hole, but I doubt that
> it would be of
> much use for most things. If the wiper motor blows, it won't
> be
> sufficiently large to , same goes for most other
> slightly-more-than-trivial things behind there, I think!
>
> Once you've taken the dash out, it's much easier next time.
> You'll know
> what to look out for, for one thing. Additionally, you can
> replace the
> torsion bolts on the steering column with normal bolts which
> makes things
> easier (I cut a slit in them with an electric jigsaw and
> used a
> screwdriver to get them off).
>
> All in all,  assuming there's no other complications it's
> about an
> afternoon's job - that's what it took me on my own. It's
> just a pain in
> the bum (note my UK roots here!) to have to disconnect
> everything...
>
> Tim(H)