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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly. That's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we're going to be replacing the blower motor on this 2002 Chevy Impala. This motor does fit a lot of different GM vehicles, so the process is probably about the same although some differences in how the access panel and stuff comes off, maybe. Tools we used on this vehicle were needle nose pliers, a flat blade screwdriver, a five millimeter socket and driver and a T20 Torx bit with a driver as well as a ratchet extension for one of our fasteners which is a little difficult to get to. Okay, start by removing this lower panel, okay. There's a clip there and clip there and there's also a pin that holds it right there. What you want to do first is take a pair of needle nose pliers, push up on the panel and get the pliers in there.
Okay, we'll fast forward here as I work the pliers in under the pin and pull it down. Move these clips, bring the panel down and you can unhook your currency light. Okay, now you're going to remove this bracket that's next to the motor. It's two five millimeter bolts. I'll speed it up a little bit here. That bracket just holds that wiring harness; you need to have the wiring harness out of the way to remove that motor. Okay, next, there are three T20 torque screws, one here, okay, one here and then right back in there, this one here. Okay, so for the rear one, I'm using extension and a ratchet and re-contorting myself in here. Okay, fast forward here a little bit. As you can see, use that ratchet and socket extension to get that rear one and then the other two are pretty easy, just with a driver and your T20 Torx bit.
Once the motor's down, then you basically pull this wire harness down, pull your motor down and then you get on a reach back in here, very hard for me to film. I'll show you basically how to do it later but reach back in. Press the tab on your lead and pull it out and your motor is out. Okay, so here's the connector and there's the tabs. What you're doing is you're feeling up in there and pushing on that tab right there in order to release it. Here's our original motor. Here's the new motor from 1A Auto. You can see they're exactly the same, they have the same connection. You will want to take this hose and take it off the original motor and just put it onto the new one. Pretty easy. Okay, just like that. I am actually going to reinstall the old one because in this vehicle, this one's working fine and we're not one to waste perfectly good parts but I just want to show you that the new part from 1A Auto is going to be the exact same as the old one. It's going to mount the same and work the same.
Okay, to put the motor back up in, what you're going to want to do is take your lead and put the motor up in and reconnect the lead. Can't really video that unfortunately. Okay and then and try and basically work the motor up underneath these wires, so pull down the wire and work it up in there. Just feel, make sure you didn't pinch your furnace connection or anything in there. Put it up and in. Let's start this screw first through. Okay. Just get it started. Okay. Make sure this tube is not caught on anything. Okay. This next one up and in and start it. Okay, the third one, just do it a little bit by feel. Once you have those first two in, just put the third one in and just push it up, turn it a little bit. I'm just going to use my extension and bit here, get it going by hand.
Okay. Before we go too far, this tube goes up and in and there's a... You got to just basically feel up in there. There's a little spout coming down onto the plastic and get the tube on there as best you can. Once you have it a little bit in place and just work it right on there. Okay. Now, you can tighten everything up. Okay, so I'm going to fast forward through tightening up here. You see I do it by hand quite a bit a little first and I use the driver. When you tighten them up, make sure they're good and firm. Don't have to make them incredibly tight because you can strip out the plastic and you don't want to do that. Okay. Keep the fast forward going as I put that bracket back up into place and start the two five millimeter bolts. We'll continue to fast forward, tighten those two bolts up, then put your panel back up in place, put your light in, start your pin first and then clip the other two clips and you're all set.
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