

| Subject: | Re: Front Heater wiring *REVISITED* |
| From: | David Beierl |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:06:10 -0500 |
At 09:06 AM 12/23/2011, Jeff Lincoln wrote: >1. What fuse should the power source to the front blower come from? On the 1.9l it originally comes from the 16 amp fuse about 3/4 of the way along the strip. If you have the cover it will be the one where the cover is melted. Owners manual and Bentley both show it. >2. When I used a random power source to test things all I can get from the >blower is a smal minute noise that tells me that the blower is at least >doing "something" but it's not running. I know that blower worked fine in >the '90. So is it for some reason not getting the proper amount of power or >did nearly 2 years of sitting freeze the blower motor up? There's been a huge misunderstanding here - we thought that you tested the blower before you put it in the dash. Didn't you? Check the current draw with switch on high (couple seconds only). If it doesn't send the ten amp range on your digital multimeter offscale then you've got a bad ground, bad switch or some such. If it does, then the motor is frozen. If by any faint chance the ten amp range on your meter is fused, don't do this test unless you're willing to expend a fuse, and if it's not fused do it *very* briefly so you don't burn up the internal shunt. Normal running draw of the uninstalled blower is around 12 amps on a fresh battery. Yours, David
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