[MBZ] 115 blower??

[Sunil Hari]

i still maintain that the best course of action is that when your blower
motor goes, sell it to someone who doesn't need a fan and buy one with a
working blower motor.

MB lists the job as 18 hours labor, IIRC, to do it the Benz way.   If you go
the trans-speaker hole route, it can be cut down to 5-6 hours, BUT you end
up with banged-up knuckles and hands and lots of swearing.  The whole car
was built around the blower motor on the MB assembly line, so getting to it
is the bear.

I know of ONE man who paid my indy to replace the blower motor.  Took my guy
13 hours, but I -think- he gave him a deal (instead of NL rate of $70/hr).
The car was a 1974 240D, reed green with green MB-Tex interior, original
owner, Concours-grade.  And it was his wife's car, and she demanded it be
fixed.

Dropping ATF onto the shafts is the best known way to quiet noisy blower
bearings.  Dunno if it's prophylactic, though.

On 5/26/06, R A Bennell <blc at mts.net> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> I forgot that the blower in the w115 must be
> a close kin to the evaporator and designed by the same fiendish
> engineer.
>
> OK, curiosity makes me ask, "how bad is this job" that I have heard vague
> references to before? The blower in my
> car seems to be fine at this time. Is there anything I can do to ensure
> that it remains that way for the
> foreseeable future? IE- drip some AT fluid onto the shafts at the end of
> the motor as has been suggested elsewhere
> on here for some other model. Can I get to it to do that?
>
> Randy B
>
>
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Sunil Hari
1992 300D 2.5T - 286Kmi.
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