One thing you might try. Get a can of WD-40 or the like, Turn on your vent
fans and make sure you are sucking outsike air, go to the air intakes on the
front of the van and spray the WD040 directly into the intakes.
  I tried this when my fan berings were making a racket and I could not find
the ambitition to take the dash apart.

IT WORKED!!!!!

   It took a while for the WD-40 to work its way around to the bearings and
for a while these was WD-40 smell inside the van but both the sound and the
racket went away in a couple of days. That was about 4 months ago and all is
still quiet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:Vanagon@vanagon.com]On Behalf Of
> David Marshall
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 1998 1:39 AM
> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: To replace fresh air fan--remove dashboard?!
>
>
> I do not envy you.  When I bought my Syncro the fan made a
> HORRIBLE racket.
>  Yes you do have to remove the dash but that is the simple part!  Removing
> the fan is the hard part.  Lots of hidden screws.  Look forward to a nice
> long weekend to do this...
>
> At 07:36 6/25/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >My fresh air fan went (it's been squeaking, and now the fuse blows when I
> >replace it and try to turn on the fan--I think the bearings just went).
> >
> >So it looks like I have to remove the dash to get the fan housing out?!
> >Is this so? Is there any better way to do this?
> >
> >The housing is tack welded at 18 points--I see that from the Bentley.
> >Interesting.
> >
> >--Dave
> >
> >
>
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