How to Replace Blower Motor Resistor 1997-2003 Chevy Malibu

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In this video, we are going to show you how to replace the blower resistor. You usually know if this is going bad when your fan will stop working on certain settings. The tools you'll need to replace this are a 7mm socket, a 7/32 inch socket, as well as a ratchet an extension, a flat-blade screwdriver, and a flashlight or some other type of portable light to light up under the dash. Start underneath. On this side you have a little panel. You may not need to take this out but I do just to give me a little bit extra room. You want to pull down the center of this pin, and pull it out, and then this comes out, and now there are two 7mm bolts, one there, and one right over here. We'll fast-forward through removing those two 7 mm bolts, and then this pulls out, over, and down, and then you're actually going to want to remove this light bulb, and if your battery is still plugged in and it is lit, it will be hot.

Now you'll want to grab your computer here and slide it to the side and down. Okay, here the red arrow is pointing to the lead for the blower motor. You want to disconnect that. There's a little tab in behind. You have to pull the tab out away and pull the lead down and then you can better access the bolt for the blower resistor and behind it, and then the yellow arrow is obviously pointing to the blower resistor. We'll pick it up here as we put the flat-blade screwdriver in behind to pry that tab back and pull that lead down. Okay, now we'll speed it up here; we'll use our 7/32 socket as well as our ratchet handle and remove those bolts. Once you get the bolts loosened, you can usually use a socket, put it on there, and loosen them with your hand. Here's my old one, and the new one from 1AAuto. You can see everything is all the same, plugs in the same. Again we'll speed it up and start those two 7/32 bolts in there, and use your ratchet and socket to tighten them up. When you tighten these up, you do not want to over-tighten them. You don't want to strip the plastic out of them. You just want to make them good and firm. Now this computer goes right back up into that bracket here; slide it into place, put your bulb back in. Okay, this large one we'll put it back up in there, and right here, right up in here in this corner, you want to push it up and in, and get that trim pin in place; put it up in place, and start your bolt on the left side, and start the one on the right side, and you want to tighten these. When you tighten them up again, just like anything on this repair, make them firm but don't over tighten them.

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