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Tonight I had to put a new blower motor in my wife's daily driver Roadmaster. No big deal, not expensive, easy job to do.  But what make me angry is this kind of stuff.  Why do the jobber guys often have to cheap out? For years they made the part a virtual duplicate for this application. Now they cut corners and the fan is about 25% smaller which will most likely translate to poorer cooling on those really hot summer days.  It was too late to turn back once I saw the difference. I had to remove  the old motor to discover it, and it was puked. No choice but to install this inferior crap.



-- Edited by Carl Stevenson on Wednesday 2nd of December 2009 12:58:28 AM

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson on Wednesday 2nd of December 2009 12:59:02 AM

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haha its amazing what you get out there n the parts world i hatebuying new parts when you know there crap and theres six different prices for 6 different guys crap!

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Well, the worst part of it is, I've been selling GM parts for over 29 years, jobber parts for 1/2 years before that and it still makes me mad after all these years when I see them do crap like this. You'd think I could get over it but why oh why don't they just make it right? How much more could it possibly cost?

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That blower motor assembly looks like one from a non air car. When I was driving mid seventies GM pickup trucks I would always change out the blower motor to one that was from an air conditioned truck. It really speeded up cleaning  frost from the windows in the winter.

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Al

That is the same thing we used to do here on the pickups. Lots of people weren't aware of it but if you ordered a non a/c pickup but ordered the cold climate package on it (V10 option code) you got the bigger blower setup. Those trucks heated very, very well.

I mean seriously, how much more could it possibly have cost them to make the fan that little extra bit bigger...?

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Carl, can you not get an OE blower anymore?

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Is there any way of changing the fan over?
Sadly, this is going to become more and more common, as the majority of society wants Walmart pricing on everything. So more and more short lived goods will end up in landfills.

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How does it work? is it truly poorer performance?

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chader wrote:

Carl, can you not get an OE blower anymore?


Worst part is, I could have but I was in a corner and had to have one right away. We got snow and the other motor had packed it in. I couldn't send my wife out in a car with no heater fan.  And the OE is only about $15 more my cost, that's what really sucks.

 



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StriperSS wrote:

Is there any way of changing the fan over?


No, I had hoped that would work but the OE blower is a different shaft than the replacement blower.

 



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