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1. heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: john lakie <doelakie@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:00:20 -0700 (PDT); It's not very often that I've had to turn on the heater fan on my BJ8 but it's proven to be pretty ineffetive whenever the need arises. As I make more and more use of the car it's becoming a problem; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00372.html (8,063 bytes)
2. RE: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "WILLIAM B LAWRENCE" <ynotink@msn.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:01:16 +0000; The heater fan is a centrifugal device that can only move air in one direction. If the fan was turning backwards it would still force air in the same direction although perhaps not as efficiently. In; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00374.html (9,090 bytes)
3. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:20:17 -0400; It's a DC motor. Swap the leads and you'll be all set. Rich Chrysler -- Original Message -- From: "john lakie" <doelakie@yahoo.com> To: <healeys@autox.team.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00376.html (8,833 bytes)
4. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:35:06 -0500; John, since you got two opinions I will weigh in with mine, I have the greatest respect for Mr. Chrysler's knowledge and opinions, but in this case I believe Mr. Lawrence is closer to the mark. The c; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00401.html (7,959 bytes)
5. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: Warthodson@aol.com; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:00:16 EDT; In a message dated 9/14/2005 10:53:16 AM Central Daylight Time, glemon@neb.rr.com writes: The centrifugal fan in a BJ8 will blow either way it turns, so the hoses are probably reversed. I guess I'll; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00419.html (8,070 bytes)
6. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: GSFuqua1@aol.com; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:38:30 EDT; Having just rebuilt one of these unless the fan is installed on the mounting bracket backwards (hard to do because of lack of room) having the hoses on the wrong opening is pretty tough. Also when yo; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00421.html (8,639 bytes)
7. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "Rich C" <richchrysler@quickclic.net>; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:28:54 -0400; I'll stick to my first reply regarding this fan thing. The power lead and the ground leads will have to be reversed if the car has been changed to negative earth. On the 6 cylinder cars the motor dri; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00427.html (10,181 bytes)
8. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: Earl Kagna <kags@shaw.ca>; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:55:59 -0700; Due respect Rich, the Healey heater blower motor is a permanent magnet motor - doesn't care about polarity. I have converted at least a half dozen Healeys to NEG ground, including my present two, wi; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00431.html (9,956 bytes)
9. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:08:46 -0500; Lastly, the fan motor is 12 volt. More juice to the motor??? I don't think so. Maybe a replacement motor with higher RPM rating would satisfy the "problem". Rich Chrysler FYI here is the article, htt; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00434.html (8,573 bytes)
10. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: Jwhlyadv@aol.com; Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:32:05 EDT; I just took one apart this weekend and found a mouse nest in the hose next to the heater fan. The fan that never really worked well was OK, it was the hose that was blocked. Perhaps that could cause; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00436.html (8,310 bytes)
11. RE: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "William Moyer" <William.Moyer@millersville.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:46:14 -0400; While I have occasionally turned the heater on in the vain hope that it would act as a secondary radiator I've never once noticed any change in the cockpit temperature (and yes, the valve is open, th; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00441.html (8,688 bytes)
12. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:33:03 -0400; Earl, there's been a misunderstanding somewhere -- permanent magnet DC motors do reverse rotation with polarity. As has been pointed, because it's a centrifugal blower, it will move air regardless of; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00442.html (8,891 bytes)
13. RE: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:31:39 +0100; While I have occasionally turned the heater on in the vain hope that it would act as a secondary radiator I've never once noticed any change in the cockpit temperature (and yes, the valve is open, th; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00443.html (9,579 bytes)
14. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: Warthodson@aol.com; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:03:14 EDT; My heater blower ('64 BJ8) is not installed so I just did some bench testing. I connected the ground lead to the positive terminal & the power lead to the negative terminal. The fan rotated clockwise; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00445.html (8,799 bytes)
15. RE: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "William Moyer" <William.Moyer@millersville.edu>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:34:54 -0400; In the 30 yrs you've had the car, have you ever cleaned out the matrix? Mine was almost solid. It cleaned out very easily and returned to - I suppose - its best efforts. I once stored the car for 10; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00446.html (8,786 bytes)
16. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:54:14 -0500; Interesting, although the old memory is far from perfect, I know I have done negative ground conversions on cars with both the early version of the lucas heater motor (which I believe has a fan) and; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00447.html (9,265 bytes)
17. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: Alan Schultz <alan@andysnet.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:59:29 -0500; After all of the replies and suggestions we are back to zero. I guess we should find out how it was dtermined that air was flowing out of the 4 inch ductwork. Was it a simple "place your hand in fro; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00451.html (8,403 bytes)
18. Fw: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:53:27 -0400; OK, frankly, --having taken my fan completely down to refurb it, and having inspected all of it's bits closely. --this discussion was driving me a bit bonkers. So I went to the garage and took my spa; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00459.html (9,474 bytes)
19. heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: "jrhill" <jrhill@chorus.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:34:40 -0500; Interesting. I have a basement full of electric trains with permanent magnet motors. Not surprisingly, when you change the polarity to the rails, they run in the opposite direction. I don't doubt tha; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00462.html (8,488 bytes)
20. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1): Author: Earl Kagna <kags@shaw.ca>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:04:48 -0700; Stranger and stranger! Just went out to the garage and did 2 tests: Test 1: I took the out-of-the-car BJ8 blower motor assembly to the bench and connected the leads both ways several times - the mot; /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00463.html (10,456 bytes)

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