OT - Noisy car blower fixed

PJH · Jul 4, 2009

A story with a good ending.

About a week ago, I turned on the blower in the wife's '03 Impala, and it had a real bad vibration, and lots of noise to go with it. It didn't sound like the leaves that get into my Ford truck blower - this was a serious out of balance condition.

Yesterday I took the blower out and found a bank envelope containing four twenty dollar bills all wadded up inside the squirrel cage.

I took it in to show it to my wife, and she said, "I wondered what happened to that envelope."

We can't figure out how it got from inside the glove box to inside the blower. I tried to slip it down the defroster slot, and it won't go.

My son is a mechanic, and he said you won't believe what he finds stuck in those car blowers.

Anyhow, usually when I work on something, it ends up costing me money. This time was different.

Paul

redtom · Jul 4, 2009

My sister worked for an eye doctor, and I mean no offense, just that he was not mechanical. He bought a Saturn car when they first came out. He took it back because the CD player wouldn't play after he put in a cd on his early morning commute and he couldn't get his cd out. Yup, he had shoved the cd into a front facing vent slot right above the player.

GordoSD · Jul 4, 2009

My run around car is a 97 16V Geo Tracker Wagon.
This winter one day the fan wouldn't "fan".
Got the cover off the housing, and got it dropped down but I couldn't get at the squirrel cage. I could rotate it with a pick. About half way around I spotted the tail of a mouse. With a long needlenosed pliars I was able to pull the mouse, piece by piece through those little blades of the fan.
Still a little bit of a "hum" when the fan runs, so I'll bet his little skull is still in there.

Gordo

UncleTom · Jul 4, 2009

My mother couldnt get her cassette player to work. Said there was a tape stuck in it. I had to fix it. There was 2 tapes stuck in there.

cbop · Jul 5, 2009

(quoted from post at 15:25:56 07/04/09)
We can't figure out how it got from inside the glove box to inside the blower. I tried to slip it down the defroster slot, and it won't go.

I have seen a lot of cars that when the controls are set to 'max' or 'recirc' position, it sucks things out of the glovebox. The recirculate door, which controls whether the incoming air comes from outside the car or inside the car is often located right over the glovebox.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 6, 2009

You were doomed the moment you showed it to the wife.
"I wondered what happened to that envelope,"
what a great reply.

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