Volvo 240 heater blower motor replacment

I used to do about 60 per year...

Find an old guy who's done it before and pay him. I'm not even going to start into the instructions.

Streetwiseguy wrote: I used to do about 60 per year... Find an old guy who's done it before and pay him. I'm not even going to start into the instructions.

I will. I can change the heater blower in a Volvo 240 in 3 easy steps:

1] Remove everything from the car that is NOT the blower.

2] Replace the blower.

3] Re-assembly is the reverse of dis-assembly.

That's really close to the truth. My first one took the better part of a weekend. By my fifth, I could do it in 3 hours.

Depending on the option level of the car, 55 minutes was my best time. Paid 3.5 on flat rate.

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Streetwiseguy wrote: Depending on the option level of the car, 55 minutes was my best time. Paid 3.5 on flat rate.

55 minutes is a dang good time! 3.5 on the flat rate seems low - I thought it was more like 6.0.

There was a legendary dealer tech in Grand Rapids, MI, name of Tim Walma (or Wallma?). I think he later became a tech trainer for VCNA. It was said he could change a blower in 45 minutes. If the stars (and the work orders) aligned just right, he could do 3 before lunch break, and call it a day!

Update:

I just Googled Tim Walma. He's still at Betten Imports in Grand Rapids, some 35 years after I knew of him!

This should help.

In all honesty, there's nothing really difficult about this job - it's just tedious. Like I said, my first one took almost 12 hours, but it was all a matter of finding the hardware that was holding this in, then finding the hardware that holds that in. It's do-able, you just have to WANT to.