garrett376

Bill G has a great article on doing the heater motor bypass - thanks for the tips Bill!

Using his info, I ordered up the same specification of resistors: a 15W 50ohm 1% tolerance resistor to bypass the motor (the cool looking one with the yellow heat sink encasing it) and a 2W 18K ohm resistor to keep the NTC sensor from triggering the blower motor to activate when the engine air gets super hot.

It was quite a fun installation if you like soldering...

garrett376

I wanted to preserve all of the plugs in case I ever went back, so I disassembled the plug, then cut the wires for both the NTC and the blower motor plug.

garrett376

I used an aluminum plate (left over from my cut-off switch installation) to mount the heat-sinked resistor, and mount the other blower motor resistor/circuit breaker. The little 2W resistor is zip tied to the wire harness.

I mounted my little plate to one of the existing mounting studs that the blower motor used to attach to...

garrett376

And here's what gets removed - about 5 pounds of heavy-duty air blowing hardware! If I owned a scale, I'd weigh it... maybe I'll see if the neighbor has a scale