How to Replace Blower Motor 1997-2005 Chevy Venture

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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the blower motor in this '99 Chevy Venture. Same as most '98-'05 Venture Montana Silhouette, the GM minivans. Tools you'll need are a 7/32 socket with an extension and ratchet or a driver handle, and maybe a pair of pliers as well.

Okay, you want to start on the passenger side underneath, and you want to pull out three pins here, here, and here. Try and grab as close to the pins as you can, push down. Sometimes the pin won't come, so you just use a pair of pliers and remove it. Kind of let this hang down. If you like you can take your wire and this just goes through and pushes up in and you just push it down and bring it through. Now you can see your blower right there, and there're three screws. You can see two of them and the last one is over on the other side. Then your lead, if you reach around like I am with my hand, what I'm doing is, it's hard to video it, but there's a tab on the back side and you push the tab in toward the middle of the motor, and then there's your lead right there. It comes down and out. I'm going to remove the three bolts that hold the motor. Probably be easiest to get to with a socket and a ratchet, and then the front two, easy enough with just a socket driver, and they are 7/32s. The size of the head is 7/32. It's a standard size.

Those three bolts loosened, and the motor basically wants to drop right out. There's a tube on the back here that you want to pull off, and bring it right down. Here's my original motor, a new motor from 1A Auto, a couple slight differences. Where the lead plugs in is just a little bit different, and then this has the holes in a different spot so it has a longer tube on it. Nothing that's going to affect how it fits. It's going to bolt in there just fine. Now you can see, it's same three bolt holes. Before we put this up in here, we're going to take this lead and just stick it underneath that wire so it doesn't get it the way and then put it up in, push it, start to put this bolt up through. Start it in, put this bolt up through, start it, let me reach all the way back here, last one, and we'll just fast forward through tightening those bolts up.

You want to tighten them up firm, but don't go too crazy because you can strip the plastic, and then they don't do any good at all so just tighten them up nice and firm but not too tight. In this tube, if you feel back in here, there's a little spout that it pushes onto. Then here's our lead. We need to turn it so that the tab is on the bottom, and then it connects, a quick test, take this, and put that up in there. Our courtesy light, put it down through and push it up and through. Then this just kind of pushes up in there. It looks like this should be clipped on somewhere. This just pushes up in, like that. Push that pin up and in, and the third pin over here.

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