After removing the heater motor today and looking at the melted plastic
fan, my suspicion is that the motor didn't start the fire but rather heated
pine needles. The way the fan melted leads me to believe that the motor
was on and spinning when the needles started to burn and then ignited the
fan blades. Is this feasible? Has anyone had a similar experience? There
weren't a lot of pine needles in there so I'm still a little skeptical
about my theory.
-Tyler
At 07:54 PM 6/9/01, you wrote:
>Do you mean the vents that feed fresh air into the
>blower/ defroster motor? The vents on the cowl
>between the wipers.
>
>Did they fill up w/ pine needles? Don't know what
>would have ignited them. You can remove the blower
>motor and fan from under the dash (right above the
>transmission tunnel) and reach through the heater box
>to clean it out.
>
>Jason
>GT6
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