Thread: Removing blower fan on Defender 300Tdi

You poor bastard!
We are lucky if it gets up to 10 degrees.
I have looked at mine in the past and I think you are right, the a/c has to be moved. My heater never gets real warm anyway. I thought it was busted but pushing it up Bellbird Hill out of Sydney a few weeks ago I got real heat out of it. It does work !!
Steve.

When you find out, tell me... i need to do mine also
Rumors tell me you have to take the inner guard out.....

Originally Posted by sclarke

Rumors tell me you have to take the inner guard out.....

Bloody hell ... I thought removing the A/C and lower left dash area was going to be a pain (p364 of RAVE W/shop manual)

The whole problem as I see it is you have to take the heater box off to be able to do anything to the blower unit.

I suppose I could remove the guard and go in that way but...

Originally Posted by dm_td5

I can't see another way around it and its getting bloody cold up here at the moment (less than 25C today), could have used some warm circulating air this morning must have been all of 19C.

Suck it up princess, I live in Ballarat, it hasn't topped 8deg for over a week, and until a week ago (headed to high country with the toddler), i've never had a working heater in my old 130.
On topic, I had a mech install the new blower, and was a bit of a task, but i didn't ask how he did it, sorry

Originally Posted by dm_td5

This is on my "things to fix list" for the Defender. The blower fan died (well drowned) and from what I understand to pull the motor out to replace it I must undo to bolts on the inside (passenger's side) of the firewall. This means removing all the A/C etc to get there.

Is there an easier way of doing it?

No, Well not that I know of... Unless someone like me has been there before you and given it "bugger this for a game of dart" and reversed the captive nut/bolt arrangement and tacked the captive nuts on the firewall side of business.

Originally Posted by sclarke

When you find out, tell me... i need to do mine also
Rumors tell me you have to take the inner guard out.....

makes it a shed load easier unless you are a double jointed cephelopod


As a temporary fix you can get 12v ceramic fan/heaters that will defrost the windshield and if given a chance will take the edge off of the cold in the front end of a deefer. I borrowed one to stop big reds windshield from icing over in albury wodonga but had to return it before i worked out how to make it auto start in the morning or start from a remote.

Thanks for the info. Looks like its a long job no matter which way I look at it.

Must be a Shed of a Job when a Landrover mechanic like Dave avoids doing the job.... Mine works fine

Just read the manual

simple

Pull the AC out from inside

Pull the Heater out and unbolt from inside

Replace the Fan blower and the re-assemble.

Mmmmmm might start on mine today and rip my AC out for good while i'm there

Who needs AC in Melbourne