One man's hack is another man's finesse. :) 

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=386923&highlight=heater+fan

Andrew
Bainbridge Island WA

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
dylan
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:27 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: heater fan whine

Karl from Westy Ventures has another approach for the front fan lube.
It involves some hacking but seemed straight forward when I read the post.
Don't know where or when it was.
Perhaps someones who has the link handy will post it.

dylan

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From: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 4:04:50 PM
Subject: Re: heater fan whine

Hey Ron,

Good news and bad news.

The good news is that the rear heater fan is real easy to get to by lifting
the rear seat and removing the plastic�cover.� You should be able to get to
the heater fan motor and drop a little oil on the brass bushing.

The bad news - the front heater blower�is installed on�the front heater
assembly tucked under the dash.� It is extremely hard to get to it
without�removing the dash.� Removing the dash is not hard but�it is time
consuming and you will spend the weekend.
No guarantees that applying oil or lubricant on what you can see of the
front heater blower will fix or reduce the whine noise.

The best solution is to replace the front blower and that will run you some
bucks - around $120 or so.

Good luck.
�Happy Camping,
Joel Cort
Rochester NY 

jcort@rochester.rr.com
joel_cort@yahoo.com

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From: ron johnson <rcj.yes@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 2:39:23 PM
Subject: heater fan whine

Quick question - both the front and rear heater blowers whine after 5-10
minutes operation. How difficult is it to lubricate these poor animals?

thanks,
Ron J.
PDX, OR
'91 Weekender, AT