From: <DanielisOk@aol.com>

   Hi Martin and others,
   I like to thank you for this info.
   Ques: My front heater blower was making a very small sound on the low speed
   setting, as if the blades were slighly touching the fan housing. On med and
   high speeds the sound would go away. The other day on low speed, the van
   filled up with a little smoke and I could smell electric/plastic burning. I
   guessed, that it was coming from the fan area.  I notice that the fan was no
   longer working on the low speed but, it did con't to work in med and high
   speed. Could this be the resistor or the fan motor??? How much work is it to
   repair this problem.
   Any info would be helpful.

In your case I suspect the low speed resistor burned due to overload.
Something may have gotten into the fan causing the noise, or if the
sound was anything like whistling it's likely a bearing problem.
You could compare your fans current draw to a friends using an
Ampere-meter.

/Martin
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