[Tigers] Blower/Heater

[Stu]

Agree on both counts.  I had my heater core rodded out and sealed up a
bunch of years back, and the system went from way to little heat to just
plain too little heat.  And reconditioning the blower motor couldn't hurt
either.

But here near Boston, no way it would have been enough for today...

Stu

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Ron Fraser via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Jim
>     The blower motor on my Tiger was running slow at one time.  I found
> that the motor was drawing over 1 amp.  The motor bushings were seized to
> the motor.
> I cleaned the motor shaft and lubed the bushings.  The blower ran much
> better and only drew around .1 amp.  I don't recall exactly what the final
> amp draw was, too long ago.   Checking the amp draw is one way of checking
> the motor/ bushing condition.
>
>     The heater core is sized nicely IMO.
> You have to check that the core is not plugged - I back flush the core now
> and then to get the sediment out of it.
> The air has to go through the core not around it for it to work correctly.
>
> Ron Fraser
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of *Rollright---
> via Tigers
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 3:02 PM
> *To:* tigers at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Tigers] Blower/Heater
>
> Hello,
>
> Though my Tiger 1A is tucked away for the Massachusetts winter, thoughts
> of improvements/fix-ups still pass through my head. This question is about
> the anemic demister/heater system.
>
> Two components make up this system
> 1) the blower with the squirrel cage fan
> 2) the heater radiator
>
> The blower fan seems like it could use a redesign. SOOOO slow. Mine is
> working same as it ever was. Anybody tried upgrading this?
> The radiator seems awfully small. Any smart-guy thoughts on this?
>
> Anything else I should be thinking of? Any Ideas?
>
> Even if the heater isn't regularly used, I'd like to be able to count on
> the system to defog the windshield.
>
> Jim Armstrong
> 382002083
> Mk 1A
> code 86
> TAC # 0763
>
>
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