[Dietrich Grell]

At my job we have an old 92 S-10 with multiple issues, the least of which is it’s ugly and banged up, and that’s why we love it, unfortunately, the company refuses to put any money or time into it since it’s old and ugly.

One major issue since my department inherited this ugly stepchild has been the defroster, or the lack thereof. I looked at it, replaced a fuse and got the blower running, but no air came out the vents. I played with the controls and made sure all the vent doors work, and determined the blower was running backwards, as well as all the resisters for the blower speeds were burnt out. Since the motor is mounted on a plastic housing, I figured how to reverse the polarity, but either the motor is “biased” to one direction and drawing three times the amount of current it’s supposed to, or the bearings are so far gone it takes triple the current to spin. It also growls like an angry cat in the dash.

So our fix is to put a 30 amp fuse on the blower motor and hope we don’t fry the heater circuit.

Since the weather is warming up a coworker and myself are set to “pimp it out” on our own time, basically clean up the interior, replace the seat upholstery, the carpet, the radio, and any other interior nastiness, so I may be able to look at replacing the motor if we have time and money.

[Dietrich Grell]

At my job we have an old 92 S-10 with multiple issues, the least of which is it’s ugly and banged up, and that’s why we love it, unfortunately, the company refuses to put any money or time into it since it’s old and ugly.

One major issue since my department inherited this ugly stepchild has been the defroster, or the lack thereof. I looked at it, replaced a fuse and got the blower running, but no air came out the vents. I played with the controls and made sure all the vent doors work, and determined the blower was running backwards, as well as all the resisters for the blower speeds were burnt out. Since the motor is mounted on a plastic housing, I figured how to reverse the polarity, but either the motor is “biased” to one direction and drawing three times the amount of current it’s supposed to, or the bearings are so far gone it takes triple the current to spin. It also growls like an angry cat in the dash.

So our fix is to put a 30 amp fuse on the blower motor and hope we don’t fry the heater circuit.

Since the weather is warming up a coworker and myself are set to “pimp it out” on our own time, basically clean up the interior, replace the seat upholstery, the carpet, the radio, and any other interior nastiness, so I may be able to look at replacing the motor if we have time and money.

[Dietrich Grell]

I’d hate to take the steam out another cool video, but Mighty Car Mods has pretty much mythbusted both topics.

Granted these are on modern Japanese cars with zero tuning to adjust for airflow and temp variables.

[Dietrich Grell]

I’d hate to take the steam out another cool video, but Mighty Car Mods has pretty much mythbusted both topics.

Granted these are on modern Japanese cars with zero tuning to adjust for airflow and temp variables.

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