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@richardwhitley6148

2 жыл бұрын

As +

“Yeah she threw a rod” had me rolling 😂 thanks for the laugh

Lesson learned: "Test both the resistor and the blower motor"

Be careful on Fonzie! This younger generation does not know anything about Happy Days 😂😂🤣🤣

@flagmichael

2 жыл бұрын

Fonzie - Henry Winkler - is 76 years old now.

@markh.6687

2 жыл бұрын

Da Fonz does not grow old! Ayyyyyyhhhhhh!

@av8tore71

2 жыл бұрын

@@flagmichael did you know his full name was Arthur HERBERT Fonzarelli. I had no idea his middle name and I don't recall it ever used in the 255 (11 years) episodes

You're killin' it lately, Eric! Spoiling us with all these videos.

@mattsilver8519

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree it's been brilliant 👍

@michaelwears4262

2 жыл бұрын

I agree I needed ole Eric when I was young and dumb!! Ha Ha Still dumb!!

Mechanics have it so easy these days. I spent Sept 1970-May 1974 in the Oldsmobile final assembly plant in Lansing Michigan. It was a hoot watching my co-workers assembling the dash. It was face down on a special support, and they had free access to everything from any direction. To assemble the dash they use custom-made tools to snake wires, and cables through the rats nest. Thus, even if your mechanic pulled the dash completely out of the car, they would never ever be able to complete some repairs without those special tools. I will bet only the dealers had access to those special tools. But I don't know.

Eric, I've sat in 100's of those design review meetings over the past 40 year as a design engineer. It usually goes like this... Engineer: "We're going to use a 6mm hex head screw, it's a common size" Purchasing Bean Counter: "We can get 5.5mm hex head screws $0.001 cheaper" Boss to Engineer: "Change it!"

@johnnyblue4799

2 жыл бұрын

You need to whack the bean counter over his 'computer' to give him a reboot.

@marksd5650

2 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I just needed to order a 5.5 deep and 5.5 wobble to remove the ignition assembly thinger I in my Ford Escape. Does a socket set come standard with a 5.5? Nope. So Ford must be collaborating with socket manufacturers to sell 5.5s. Or not

@patrickreynolds801

2 жыл бұрын

100%

@adventureoflinkmk2

2 жыл бұрын

@@marksd5650 not just Ford, I remember Saturn also used a 5.5mm socket for its ignition switch

@martyj1062

2 жыл бұрын

Just use a 7/32 I've yet to purchase a 5.5 never had an issue

It amazes me that people don’t even have enough respect to clean crap like crona equipment when dropping their car off for service.

@markkrispin6944

2 жыл бұрын

Just think what their house looks like from the inside!

@snoopy5736

2 жыл бұрын

Agree, I usually throw all my garbage away at the gas station. I'll usually even go to the carwash and hit it with a degreaser if necessary

@mattpobursky850

2 жыл бұрын

@@markkrispin6944 My dad and Grandpa ran a small HVAC company when I was a kid. The stories they told...

@markkrispin6944

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattpobursky850 oh I believe you!

@johnhpalmer6098

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattpobursky850 Yep, I occasionally watch Steven Lamoniere (sp?) here on the Tube and he serves customers in his HVAC/plumbing business that are like that, live in not quite abject squalor, but some come close in the south Boston to the SE corner of the state and many are as he calls it, not Taj Mahals or mutters it's a "shit show" as far as their residence is concerned. Mind you, many elderly and many are at best working class types.

"Threw a rod" made me laugh. I like your chatter.

Read the title too quick though we were in for a BLOWN motor 😂

It took me a moment to appreciate the Fonz quote, ha ha ha. The way he would bump the soda machine and get a drink was legend. Most guys who watch here weren't born yet.

@coache1nine

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, lol

@joelopez40oz23

2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching reruns of Happy Days when I was a kid. Im almost 40.

I had a feeling it was the blower motor all along. That is simple repair and easy to get to both those parts. Now I had to change my blower motor on my Mercedes Benz 1987 300TD. That is a tough one to get too. It is just in front of the firewall and you have to remove a lot of stuff to get to it, like that wiper motor. Now the Resistor is under the blower motor and that is a real experience to get. Now I see why a shop would charge like $900 to change out a blower motor..

Throughout my career as a master technician with Ford, Lincoln and Mercury I always sold the blower resistor and blower motor assembly together. It’s an excellent insurance policy.

I love my SMA hoodie. Warm and I’m flying the colors!! Get one today!! Thanks Eric for a great video. We know it takes time to make them, and I’m pretty dang sure we all appreciate your efforts. Be safe. And Cheers!!

“Chubby rubber” - LOL. Clearly, Mr. O is a closet comic. 🤣

I feel your pain from the gut feeling. To get paid for actual diag time is almost impossible in my neighborhood. One shop I worked at always sold the resistor and blower as a combo. Truth be told, I didn't mind. I hate just throwing parts at cars, but being under most dashboards is difficult. I'm a big guy with broad shoulders, I don't fit well under most dashboards. I also have had my neck bones rebuilt. If I'm going under, I don't mind replacing them both. As always, your videos are my top clicks. I only watch other channels if the repair is relevant to something im working on. Just know alot of us was feeling the pain of being crammed under there.

@johnhpalmer6098

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Eric is thankful he's not a big guy as I think he's at most 5'10" and wears a medium to large shirt/hoodie, so even then, it's tight under there and I've had to deal with being under my dashboard and yes, it's no fun at tall for anyone, but more so for the bigger guys, especially the more broad shouldered, barrel chested ones.

Eric O, the 5.5mm screw is a standard size on copy machines. And let me tell you uncle Chow must own screw factory. 1 medium size machine had 16 screws in back panel. 6 screws would work perfectly. Needless to say walked out with a lot of pocket screws.

I owned a 2015 Nissan Murano. "Disaster" is the perfect word to describe the cabin air filter location. I changed it once. After that I happily paid a mechanic/contortionist to save my back.

lol the Nissan Altima cabin filters always crack me up, Eric’s not playing, you literally gotta fold the thing up like an accordion and stick it in the hole and hope it flips itself open all the way lol, absolutely ridiculous

In the 1970s I had Snap-On screwdrivers with a hex on the shank for putting real torque on it. The hex size was - you guessed it! - 5.5mm. I had a 5.5MM Snap-on combo wrench to work with them. BTW, the resistor pack has more than the resistor(s) in it. They include a thermal fuse - it opens when it gets to a specific temperature and doesn't care much about current. Who wants a fire in their ventilation ducts?

Thank goodness for winter time more SMA videos for your viewing pleasure

Safety rules require the blower motor to work on high speed even when the resistor fails in order to defrost your windscreen. Oh, try changing the cabin filter on a Volvo S40. You have to remove the electronic accelerator pedal. So much fun.

Good morning everybody !

Kicking ass putting new video's out!!!! Love it...

Again, thorough as always!

Another great video! We are really getting spoiled with all these videos! Don’t stop now! 👍👍👍

Keep up the good work!

You getting us spoiled with all the uploads 💪💪

Another solid entertaining repair!!!

Another great video. Thanks for the lesson.

great work as always

The Neutral Drop reference at the intro was well done!!

Thanks as always, Eric!

I enjoyed the whole process. Thanks.

With a PWM signal, that "resistor" was likely a power transistor. Usually, power transitors have an inline thermal fuse that blows. Replaced one on a 2004 Honda Pilot. No where in the manual did they tell you about the fine mesh over the blower intake that was in the driver's footwell. Previous owner had had small dogs, so there was a felt built up over the intake.

@BretBerger

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't understand why a PWM driven motor would need a big-ass resistor. Thanks for the comment.

@sometimesleela5947

2 жыл бұрын

@Bret Agreed, and I still wonder why a transistor that should be saturating would need a heatsink that huge (30W?)

@paulmoir4452

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. And 99/100 a power transistor is going to fail short . Which is to say the blower will be full on. If it's not, then go looking for that thermal fuse if you have the time. If you don't have the time and it's not your car, follow Eric's path of replacing the parts.

@jimmyb1451

2 жыл бұрын

That's nuts! I take it you mean a non reset-able thermal fuse on the heatsink? Either way, the only purpose of that would be to protect the mosfet from getting too hot. Why bother if the thermal fuse is just going to disable the PWM driver anyway? Some designs man, really make you wonder. If it were my car, I'd build a board with a fet bolted to a heat sink and a gate driver, stuff them in a box under the dash and know that I never had to worry about it again.

@TeemarkConvair

2 жыл бұрын

thanks 'cause i wondered how a "resistor" would be used in a PWM application.

Excellent job. Well done.

Love all your videos Mr O. Keep up the good work 😉

Dang your on a roll with putting out vids lately! Keep ‘em coming!

I enjoy your videos they are full of useful information!!!thank you

You r an absolute champion cobba,enjoy very much what you do

Wow a blower motor thats got all screws accessible, thats actually amazing within itself.

🤣 Good video as usual. The hilarity is part of the reason I subscribed 🤣

Thanks for sharing this experience. I learned something. 👍

You're awesome. You made a 25 minute video about a heater fan and it's highly entertaining.

Well done Watson.

Love the video Eric very good job very informative

Another epic vidja Eric. The diagnostic theories and practices that people learn here are amazing. Almost as fun as vids that have lots of ugga duggas! Thank you Sir.

Well done Eric!

A 2005 Nissan Xterra was my first vehicle... bought it used with 230,000km for $1,000 CAD. Same red colour. I loved that beast: learned so much about automotive mechanics and general car care/repair. Drove it for 5 years and ended up putting it to rest at 400,000km. The blower motor was one of the first repairs I ever did. Thanks for the memories, Mr. O!

I love your comedy while you work. I love your bashing of auto engineers. 😀👍. Bob. From Florida

Good path to a complete repair Eric. 👍

"Room for probage"...lmao...awesome, Eric!

I would like to thank you very much for putting on these videos very entertaining and the chit chat between you and mrs o

Love all your videos and how you go after wiring issues

I enjoy watching you man, you take pride in your work which is ver respectable with how many bad and shady machanics there is and on top of that you crack me up with the dad jokes and mechanic jokes all around good people and run a great shop. Keep up the great work and positive attitude. I just did the blower motor in my 97 silverAdo.

A cabin air filter is a must to keep clean. I have changed my share of resistors and blowers.

@jimmyb1451

2 жыл бұрын

I just delete them in my cars. Complete waste of time.

My favorite blower motor resistor story: my '99 Camry. Blower motor had a bad bearing, so it made a horrendous racket on high, but was fairly quiet on the other three speeds, so I didn't really care. Then, the blower motor resistor fails about three years later, leaving me with ONLY high. Down to the Auto Parts Box Store, plug that puppy in so I could have heat without deafness but didn't bother actually installing it - I left it hanging under the dash for the ten minute drive home. The new blower motor resistor lasted almost two minutes before it failed, leaving me with no motor operation at all. It was a cold drive home for a stupid mistake, and when I got home I heated up the soldering iron and re-flowed the solder on the thermal cutoff (it was merely two metal tabs soldered together) and did the RIGHT THING - I installed it as it should have been, where airflow keeps the thermal cutoff intact. Two years later, it still works, and yes I did end up replacing the blower motor when I had to start doing the tappy-tap to get it spinning.

I like when you work on Nissans. A rare thing in your part of the woods!

super patient great smart mechanic.

Keep it up Eric.

I love it when bit of a detective investigation lol . A video a day ! santa bills bit spendy this year ! lol . Have fun . content always good in humour and professional tips .

Really like this hombre. Trouble shooting excellence

Good stuff!! My retinas are doing fine thanks for asking.

Love the content, seems like your doing more videos and I love that. I feel I am always learning something new from you.

Loved the flash light as a push bar / hammer, application.

"Do it like you were working for your mother." Love it Eric.

Always a good day to see you figure it out, twice…haha. It needed all three changed out and you knew it.

We must be on the "nice" list, cause Santa O is givin us lots o that sweet, sweet content this week!!! Thanx Santa O! xD

Enjoying your Freudian references about mothers....deep...and hilarious...great video...keep on smashin them out ....love your work...all the way from Brisbane

Made me smile. Normally if the blower does not work it's the blower motor. :-) Enjoyed watching.

Another great video, thank you.

really enjoy your videos.watching from england.R.Parker USAF MSGT Retired. Thanks

Thanks Eric 'Heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy' 👍👍👍👍Fonz from Happy Days' and Merry Xmas hols' and Happy New Year to You and the South Main Auto shop and families 🥳🥳🧑‍🔧☃🎉🎊🍻

Great video Eric. That's the first xterra I've ever seen with a stick shift.

So entertaining. Keep it up! Helped me trouble shoot my 2010 Xterra OR

I didn’t get my “come on baby” but I did get “oh yes baby instead”great vid Eric, greetings from Ireland

Thanks Dr. O!

Once again a great class for us DIY guys Eric. I channeled you the other day when I used my meter and power probe to assess why my "speed control" which is what Ford calls the cruise control on my mint 2001 F-250 Superduty 7.3 was not working. I traced it down to a crusty plug connector on the master cylinder switch. Removed it, cleaned it up with CRC Electrical Connector cleaner, tested the two 2 amp inline fuses (this was a recall replacement fused jumper harness). Fuse #28 was good, I watched your 2015 video on clock springs. Ran through all; the other possibilities like power and grounds, horn function, speedometer function, rear ABS speed sensor (no ABS light illuminated) No air bag check light illuminated etc. Decided it was the cruddy plug. Problem fixed. I was about to do the clock spring dance... no. need as the cruise control came right up as commanded and all the other steering wheel controls were working normally. Thanks Eric for all you do for us. You are at the top of my list of favorite KZread Instructors. You are entertaining, your wife is a wonderful lady and your filming and editing along with your instruction are first rate. I live on the other side of the continent in WA State. Otherwise I would bring my vehicles to you for things beyond my level. It would be fun to talk to you face to face sometime and thank you in person for all your videos. Please keep the videos coming as they are invaluable. An honest quality mechanic can be a hard thing to find. I had one but colon cancer took him away early in his mid 40's. I miss Mike very much.He was honest and talented to a fault. Now it's me with your tutelage. I'm even making my own how to videos as well. Thanks again Eric. Oh... and I am wearing out my SMA Hoodie. :0)

Yep going with your guts up sometimes is the right way to go But Eric you know what they say that's why they put rubber at the end of the pencil because everybody makes mistakes. At least you're the honest guy that will admit it. Many blessings to you and your family during this holiday season.

Yes, Eric O., that's exactly how it went down! The birth of the 5.5mm socket finally explained.

Great video right on time. I'm struggling with blown resistor on 02 Dodge Caravan. Going to look a little farther than the resistor this time. Wishing you Happy Holidays. Thanks for Sharing!

Givin it the Fonz is always worth a shot!

Thanks for the info.Have an idea now where the resister might be in my Nissan Frontier.

Find one thing broke and hope you got it. Find a second thing broke and know you got it. Now that's how most of my projects go. Reality at South Main Auto, gotta love it.

Good job man!!👍👍😎💪

9:33 is what made me like the video lol Also, a trick that I saw in another channel I think was AMMO anyhow they put a "plate" is about the size of the filer, under the filter to avoid dropping that trash into the blower or at the very least minimize the amount that falls to the blower

The heat sink module is most assuredly a FET transistor, the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal through the thin wire wouldn't work with a dropping resistor chain. New word added to our lexicon though: PROBAGE

@markh.6687

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like what Jerry did with Elaine on Seinfeld....PROBAGE.

had to change the cabin filter in my 2011 altima over yonder in medina area, my fat fingers could barely manage to get it in all snug like, thanks for the content

Perfect. Now when mine packs in I know how to fix it!

The ford tfi ignition modules in the 80s were the first i remember using the 5.5 mm socket. Texton sold a socket with a short bit just for them.

Almost had me snorting coffee. The cup was sitting on the table at the time LOL

Thank you for your attention to camera angles, it’s definitely not easy doing this without a video recorder, but with it, just makes it that more difficult. Thank you sir.

Like others mentioned already, I was surprised you did not check the blower anyway after you saw the resistor was fried. If it was shorted, you could have taken out the new resistor rather quickly. Since it often takes me a day or three to get parts, I try to check things like that to make sure I can get it working, or just get a new blower because it is cheap enough to replace something that breaks according to a designed schedule while I got the tools in there. I hear you on those cabin filter locations. It always amazes me that the car manufacturers make serviceability such a low priority. They harp on doing the filter changes, then make it so you have to disassemble half the car to do a scheduled maintenance. In my Pilot, I knew I was the first owner to change the cabin filter because you have to cut out a piece of the dash subframe to open the access cover. Yes, Honda designed it so you have to hack out a piece of the frame to change a freakin filter! 🤨 That guy who invented the 5.5mm messed up because he forgot to patent it. There was real money to be made there!!! I won’t make that same mistake with my 10.2mm eight-sided design…

i was worried when you dident check the blower motor before you sold the job ..been there done that and still do from time to time glad to see even you make mistakes i have been doing this for well over 30 years and not to blow smoke up your ass but you seem to be a great honest technician and business owner ..count your blessings (and i am sure you do ) with that awesome family you have

I've had luck with lubing the bearings/ on a blower motor and brought them back to life, But that was on older vehicles ..

I had an older Ford Taurus with a runaway blower, full blast. Glad I had a service manual with schematics because I had no idea there was a resistor that controlled speed. Quick, easy, cheap fix (way before YT). I’m sure your video will help a lot of people.

Like always great repair, I had replace the resistor on a trailblazer after I check motor was turning on the fan. Awesome content on the video. Take care thanks 😊

Was watching a u tube video changing the the cabin filter on '01 Silverado. Thought to my self maybe that's why the system isn't working well. Didn't even know it had one. Took it all apart, sure enough it was plugged solid. Changed it out works good now I've had the truck 15 years and I think this was the first time it was ever changed.

5.5mm is actually a very common head size in my experience. It's the default size for M3 nuts. When your screw is only 3mm, 0.5mm is much more significant then when you have a fat M10 bolt.

@privatedata665

2 жыл бұрын

Randomly used on Generous Motors Resistors too

That's such a cute little ratchet and yes the 2000 Silverado has side-by-side cabin filter, mine does. Great video Eric O..