I am another "victim" of the noisy replacement blower motor (now that I have bought my '85 back). FWIW, when mine started to squeal, I drilled the hole and lubed it. A week later it locked up! The old one is still on my workbench, after pulling it out and getting it well oiled it now runs just fine-and quiet! Jeff Stewart ----- Original Message -----
> I sure have had good luck "rebuilding" them, knock on wood. Almost
> always irks going to be dirty commutators or dry bushings. Singer
> sewing machine grease--not the oil--seems to be the stuff for that.
> Jim
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> > So what other choices are there now that they are no longer
> > available
> > through the dealer?
> > What about the rear blower? Yes the Meyle ones are real bad.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> > Behalf Of
> > David Beierl
> > Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 9:37 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Heater fan CHIRP!
> >
> > At 09:27 PM 4/8/2013, Karl Mullendore wrote:
> >> Yep, I learned my lesson lately on the Meyle fans as well. Totally
> >> rebuilt the heater box in my 'new' Syncro, new everything - in
> >> preparation for a S America trip that still hasn't happened. Noisy
> >> as
> >> hell on low, so I try to avoid that. When I get around to painting
> >> the
> >> van, I'll swap it out to a better one.
> >> Karl
> >
> > I just sent Ron a message suggesting he either pull them from his
> > line or
> > put a warning on them that many people have noise problems with
> > them.  I
> > know if I'd had to live with the one I put in Millie's van I'd have
> > gone
> > raving mad.  And  I'd hate for Meyle-->Grrrr to be associated with
> > Bus
> > Depot-->Grrr in people's minds.
> >
> > Yrs,
> > d