weird noisde when i turn fan on

smilexelectric · 11-02-2009, 02:10 PM

Whenever I turn my AC fan on it makes a weird vibrating sounds. Is it because my blower motor is going bad?

bradrhale · 11-02-2009, 02:54 PM

probably because something has fallen into the squirrel cage and it is banging around in there. i have found leaves, tape, dead mice, and other assorted want nots including the vents themselves. it could be that the fan itself has thrown its counterweight off and is unbalanced but i would crack open the housing first before thinking of purcachasing anything.

smilexelectric · 11-02-2009, 02:56 PM

now you have me scared to open it lol! dead mice, i know ive seen it many times at the pet store i worked at but uggggghhh.

bradrhale · 11-02-2009, 03:06 PM

happened to my MIL. they got in there and had a nest. yes it is possible. her nissan is a 00 with 60K on the clock. that truck smelled horrible especially when the fan was on. everything else i listed, i have seen first hand and made noise like you were describing.
i have also had a cage so dirty that it actually wobbled also. cleaned it with some acid and never had a problem again. but that was an aluminum fan.

leolkfrm · 11-02-2009, 03:10 PM

does it make noises with the heat to???.

..........bad bearing in the blower is my best guess

smilexelectric · 11-02-2009, 03:12 PM

yea same noise.

crabtruck · 11-03-2009, 03:30 AM

leo, in that case he gets a warm feeling,
so he just wants to fix the AC fan.

See smiley ? I got your back.

gmctrucks · 11-03-2009, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smilexelectric

now you have me scared to open it lol! dead mice, i know ive seen it many times at the pet store i worked at but uggggghhh.

Don't be scared just turn on the heater on high it will cook that mouse it's nothing but a thing.
GMC

hotrodpc · 11-03-2009, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smilexelectric

now you have me scared to open it lol! dead mice, i know ive seen it many times at the pet store i worked at but uggggghhh.

Just be careful !!! Those dead mice might bite !!!

BernieB · 11-03-2009, 11:32 AM

Reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life...

I was working for a company in NJ, doing tech stuff, and we had this office manager that was a real practical joker. He was always doing stuff to people and several of the guys and women in the office were just dying to get even with him. Right around the beginning of February we hatched the perfect plan for revenge. We were in the middle of a project that required us to make up looseleaf binders with technical info for distribution to other facilities around the world. Each binder had about 250 pages, and we had 200 of them to make. Everything had to be very clear and easy to read, so we were printing the info out using two laser printers, then the girls would use paper punches to make the holes and put the sheets in the binders.

So we started saving all those paper dots... POUNDS of them...

April 1st rolls around and we were perfect angels. He knew we had something planned, but didn't know what, and all day he was jumpy, waiting for us to spring our trap. Little did he know...

At lunch time, three of us went out to the parking lot with this huge bag of dots and I used a slimjim to open the door on his car (an AMC Pacer) then we proceeded to very carefully fill all the air ducts in the dash with the dots. We made sure we left nothing to tip him off, and the very last thing we did before locking the car back up again was turn the blower motor on high.

Quitting time started getting close and everyone started gathering by the back door near the parking lot, waiting for Mark to head out to his car and drive home.

He saw us waiting there, but didn't really pay us any mind, waved and got in the car and closed the door. Then he stuck the key in the ignition and started it...

Instant Human Snowglobe!

It was bleeping hilarious! You couldn't even SEE him in the car! Just this mass of white dots swirling around! Then he opened the door and dove out into the parking lot, and it seemed to just follow him! He was laying there on the ground, laughing his head off, covered in the cloud of paper dots. Two of the girls from the office peed themselves they were laughing so hard, and I could hardly breathe and had tears rolling down my face.

We cracked up over that for months afterwards.

11-02-2009, 02:10 PM	#1
smilexelectric Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Greensburg, PA Posts: 439	weird noisde when i turn fan on Whenever I turn my AC fan on it makes a weird vibrating sounds. Is it because my blower motor is going bad?

11-02-2009, 03:10 PM	#5
leolkfrm Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: N.Y. Posts: 4,300	does it make noises with the heat to???...........bad bearing in the blower is my best guess __________________ 4 wheels move the body 2 wheels move the soul B.W.A.I

11-03-2009, 11:32 AM	#10
BernieB Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 1,902	Reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life... I was working for a company in NJ, doing tech stuff, and we had this office manager that was a real practical joker. He was always doing stuff to people and several of the guys and women in the office were just dying to get even with him. Right around the beginning of February we hatched the perfect plan for revenge. We were in the middle of a project that required us to make up looseleaf binders with technical info for distribution to other facilities around the world. Each binder had about 250 pages, and we had 200 of them to make. Everything had to be very clear and easy to read, so we were printing the info out using two laser printers, then the girls would use paper punches to make the holes and put the sheets in the binders. So we started saving all those paper dots... POUNDS of them... April 1st rolls around and we were perfect angels. He knew we had something planned, but didn't know what, and all day he was jumpy, waiting for us to spring our trap. Little did he know... At lunch time, three of us went out to the parking lot with this huge bag of dots and I used a slimjim to open the door on his car (an AMC Pacer) then we proceeded to very carefully fill all the air ducts in the dash with the dots. We made sure we left nothing to tip him off, and the very last thing we did before locking the car back up again was turn the blower motor on high. Quitting time started getting close and everyone started gathering by the back door near the parking lot, waiting for Mark to head out to his car and drive home. He saw us waiting there, but didn't really pay us any mind, waved and got in the car and closed the door. Then he stuck the key in the ignition and started it... Instant Human Snowglobe! It was bleeping hilarious! You couldn't even SEE him in the car! Just this mass of white dots swirling around! Then he opened the door and dove out into the parking lot, and it seemed to just follow him! He was laying there on the ground, laughing his head off, covered in the cloud of paper dots. Two of the girls from the office peed themselves they were laughing so hard, and I could hardly breathe and had tears rolling down my face. We cracked up over that for months afterwards. __________________ If the guys who design 'em had to take one home, use it every day for 2 years, and do all the maint and repairs themselves, cars would have a button on the dash to change the oil, filters & plugs.

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11-02-2009, 02:54 PM	#2
bradrhale Senior Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 8,025	probably because something has fallen into the squirrel cage and it is banging around in there. i have found leaves, tape, dead mice, and other assorted want nots including the vents themselves. it could be that the fan itself has thrown its counterweight off and is unbalanced but i would crack open the housing first before thinking of purcachasing anything.

11-02-2009, 02:56 PM	#3
smilexelectric Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Greensburg, PA Posts: 439	now you have me scared to open it lol! dead mice, i know ive seen it many times at the pet store i worked at but uggggghhh.

11-02-2009, 03:06 PM	#4
bradrhale Senior Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 8,025	happened to my MIL. they got in there and had a nest. yes it is possible. her nissan is a 00 with 60K on the clock. that truck smelled horrible especially when the fan was on. everything else i listed, i have seen first hand and made noise like you were describing. i have also had a cage so dirty that it actually wobbled also. cleaned it with some acid and never had a problem again. but that was an aluminum fan.

11-02-2009, 03:12 PM	#6
smilexelectric Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Greensburg, PA Posts: 439	yea same noise.

11-03-2009, 03:30 AM	#7
crabtruck Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: on your 9 Posts: 3,364	leo, in that case he gets a warm feeling, so he just wants to fix the AC fan. See smiley ? I got your back.