heater fan squeak/sqeal

[yellow400ex05]

Alright my fan in my '66 chevy has an annoying squeak/squeal coming from the blower under the hood is there anyway to fix this simply, maybe blowing lubricant into the air intake would help? are those stock heaters complicated to tear into?

[TBONE1964]

You need to get some lube on the blower motor bushing/bearings. I have seen people drill a small hole in the blower motor case and use WD-40 to spray through the hole.

Blowing lube through the air intake will not help this.

Good Luck.

[luvbowties]

Originally Posted by yellow400ex05

Alright my fan in my '66 chevy has an annoying squeak/squeal coming from the blower under the hood is there anyway to fix this simply, maybe blowing lubricant into the air intake would help? are those stock heaters complicated to tear into?

I once drilled a heater motor, into the bushing/bearing surface, onto the shaft area, and installed a zerk fitting. It never did any good; altho' it seemed like a 'remarkable' idea to me at the time! I was about 13 & did it on a 1955 Chevy belonging to a customer of my dad's. Thought I had solved a years-old problem until it did no good......maybe if I had access to a product like WD-40, as another poster above just mentioned...?

And, no, they are not that complicated to access.
sam

[KJSR]

I had the same issue the other day. It was dry bushings in the motor. I took the fan and motor out, removed the fan(it had a ton of crap built up on the blades), oiled the bushings with motor oil, bead blasted the fan and painted, reassembled and installed. It is super quiet now and I'm sure has more flow than before. Real easy job to do...

[travz500]

If you need a new / used motor I got a couple I would be willing to sell
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[DoubleL]

Pretty easy to pull out. I took mine out lubricated it cleaned it. It ran real quiet for about 2 weeks. Then I replaced it. For the price I wish I had done that in the first place. The motor is cheap.
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