| Re: Saturday Chat 03.26.11 |
Subject: Re: Saturday Chat 03.26.11 by Matatk on 2011/3/26 19:57:37 Don - I think you should name your car Jethro Tull  Tommy - too bad about the deal falling through. I know you were interested in it, but think of all the money you'll be saving! I had an interesting morning. Went downstairs to do the blower motor. Pull the panels off and start pulling off wires, vacuum lines, etc. Not too much work to get it out. 4 screws and it's off. I pull it out of the furnace and water starts pouring all over the floor...a lot of water. WTF? The whole motor was filled with it. Wait, is this a water pump, or a blower motor? Do a little more digging, the rubber vent connection is full of water, too, as is the exchanger inside the furnace. I started getting a bit worried. I tried to look online, there was zero information on this. Then I found one old post on a furnace website stating you should clean the blower vent tube once a season. I blew through it and tons of crap started blowing out. It was clogged. Probably for a long time, too. I washed it out, blew compressed air through the furnace and opened up a drain valve inside the furnace exchanger. Lots of water. I checked the vent, it was not clogged, so that is good. Just the one clogged drain caused all kinds of problems. After about an hour, I buttoned everything back up and fired it up. Success. Heat was at 75* almost instantly with the call for heat at 73. Now it's set to 71 and comfortable, doesn't appear to be any more fluctuations. I'm happy. After that I changed the oil in my wife's car and tinkered with mine. I'll make a post about that later Matthew |
