Squeaky Blower Motor

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Anybody have experience getting some oil onto the blower motor bearing? I've removed the glove box in an effort to gain access, but that bad boy is buried deep! The squeak, akin to the sound of a mouse being eaten by fire ants, is driving me crazy. I really don't want to rip the whole dash out...
 
You can pull the blower motor and fan for the AC/Heat pretty without too much trouble fortunately. Rough steps as I recall them:

-remove the glovebox, I just pull the two phillips head screws that are on the hinges and then unlatch the glovebox and drop it down. don't even have to empty the contents to remove it
-remove the 3(?) screws holding the motor in place and start to lower it down (this may be out of order)
-pop the linkage rod for the recirculation flap out of it's socket and disconnect it. I think this is a pretty standard connection type and the same as what you find in the doors etc. where the socket rotates to clip or unclip from the linkage rod/shaft so that the end can then slide out of the socket...
-unplug the motor harness/plug and then lower/wiggle the motor and fan out

I'm sure the FSM and other posts on here would do a better job of guiding you but if you head out to your truck with basic hand tools and a flexible back you should be able to get the motor out pretty quickly and easily.

On my truck the cause of my squeak was a plastic bag of all things. I'm not sure how it caused the squeak but I cleaned it out of the fan and reinstalled and the squeak was gone, no oil added. I recommend you pull the fan and clean/inspect as a next step and if it's really dirty you may not need to try to oil what I assume are bushing in the motor (just a guess). It's easy to pull the fan off of the motor for washing but I don't recall how hard it would be to dig deeper, though I'm sure others on here have.

Also, when the fan motor is off you have decent access to the evaporator core / box. I was able to clean debris out of the box and spray coil cleaner on mine via the air inlet hole that the fan/motor fills.
 
That motor is prolly one of the easiest things to replace on the truck. Just 3 bolts accessible from the passenger foot-well and a connector. You can get a new motor from Rockauto.com

Those are perm lubed bearings. You won't be able to 'oil'.

But as the above poster sez, you may have crap in there, too.
 
Mine just started doing this on the 93. I may actually have time to dig in to this this weekend!
 
Any current fixes reported? I looked on Rockauto and it appears all they sell is the motor itself without the cage...which is strange considering I cannot figure out for the life of me to get this cage off. It would seem if it was removable it would be an easy repair to lube it up since that's all in dealing with is a SQUEAK! Haha.
 

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