A prayer - & Chevy Silverado repair

[Stig / Major Tom]

My mechanical skills are such that, I always say a little prayer when setting out to fix something on an automobile.
Not the one you might expect.

Mine is: "Lord, please help me not be too discouraged when this DIY doesn't work."
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Couple days ago I noticed the heater/AC blower quit working on my Silverado.
Checked the fuses. Replaced 3 of them - even though they looked OK.
Youtube'd the situation and found a lot of help.

Might be the resistor or the fan motor.
Amazed beyond words to find the resistor and fan/motor are easily accessed under the dash: 2 screws on the resistor; turn the motor and it falls out in your hand!
12 V to the fan from an old scooter battery spun the fan.
So, off to NAPA for a new resistor ("common problem" counterman said)(yes - could have probed for 12V from the resistor plug with multimeter - but my luck - that would short something in the dash)

There is too much of me to fit under anything but the dash of a 747 - but I did it.
And the fan works!!

I thanked the Lord  - and asked the Lord to copy & paste my initial prayer for next time.



Stig

[Kansas kymco]

I wasn't so lucky  a couple of years ago. I had two fan motors quit at about the same time. One in my old Chevy S-10 Blazer and one in my F-350 Diesel truck. The Ford fan motor  was a easy change. The Blazer I had to cut the outside plastic housing away just to see the motor (procedure on that year Blazer) motor was fully encased by the A/C housing.  Then I had to go to the hardware store to get a 1/4 inch socket u-joint to get to 3 of the screws that held the fan motor in place.  The alternative was to remove the front fender.  Sold the Blazer shortly thereafter.