I finished tinkering with the car this afternoon, then started the car to check all was well. A minute or so after firing her up, there was a loud noise & vibration coming from the passenger side dash area & some tiny pieces of foam fragments blown out of the upper dash vents.
The ac was still blowing cold, & everything appeared to work aside from the horrendous racket which would rise & fall when adjusting the AC fan speed & vanish with the fan turned off.
After my initial panic subsided, I eventually deduced there must be some debris in the heater/ac blower motor.
I followed the steps from https://www.pelicanparts.com/techar...a/103-ELEC-HVAC_Motor/103-ELEC-HVAC_Motor.htm to remove the blower motor, & found a thin membrane floating around in there.See attached pic of the removed item.
After removing the membrane & re-fitting the blower, the noise has thankfully gone. However this leaves me wondering what this item is & how to replace it.
I'm guessing it's some kind of vapour barrier that belongs somewhere in the AC ducting, but not sure where.
Any one have any ideas where it came from & what the part number might be?
The ac was still blowing cold, & everything appeared to work aside from the horrendous racket which would rise & fall when adjusting the AC fan speed & vanish with the fan turned off.
After my initial panic subsided, I eventually deduced there must be some debris in the heater/ac blower motor.
I followed the steps from https://www.pelicanparts.com/techar...a/103-ELEC-HVAC_Motor/103-ELEC-HVAC_Motor.htm to remove the blower motor, & found a thin membrane floating around in there.See attached pic of the removed item.
After removing the membrane & re-fitting the blower, the noise has thankfully gone. However this leaves me wondering what this item is & how to replace it.
I'm guessing it's some kind of vapour barrier that belongs somewhere in the AC ducting, but not sure where.
Any one have any ideas where it came from & what the part number might be?