Blower motor squeek / chirp on low *FIX*

The anit-sieze lasted all of one day. May work for others, but not myself. It was actually louder than before I did it. Quiet loud even on the 3rd setting.

I took apart again, for the third time, cleaned it up again and put grease on it like the original post says. So far so good. Hopefully it stays. You would think that Toyota would take care of this issue after so many problems with a blower motor.

 

Wife's gonna pick up some copper anti-seize for me today. Not Loctite, whatever brand O'Reilly's has.

If I drop the cash on a new 043 and install it myself, will it be covered by a Toyota warranty? Who will replace it for me if/when it starts chirping? Toyota? The selling dealer? Dealership? (pfft, yeah right)

 

Figured I'd throw my hat into the ring here. I had the -043 motor installed to fix the chirping. The new motor now ticks like crazy.

 

Nearly one year later, this motor is still silent. maybe i'm lucky..............

 

i did this for a diff member a few weeks ago. its simple and is the real fix. the top bearing ends up getting all thir brown dust that makes it squeaky when the bearing dries up. simple fix.

 

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Big thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences with this. I have a 2011 DC & had a hell of a time getting two dealers to cooperate. Both said they were not able to reproduce the symptoms and that "I was just hearing things".

Finally, I went to a third dealer, parked there at 5am, let the truck cool completely, and had the blower motor changed out within an hour.

Crossing my fingers that the new part works long term!

 

Anyone ever have their actual actuator from switching from cold to warm start clicking as if it was stuck once left on warm? Mines doing that

 

Thanks for the tips guys and gals fix mine a couple days ago. The grease i used stunk up my truck for a couple days but that smell is going away.

 

thank you!!

 

did mine today finally, Ive been just to lazy for the last year

I just cleaned well, and used some 5-30 used oil on two sleeve's and BAM no squeak. BUT...... maybe i didnt seat the fan all the way level, because their is a slight buzz/rattle. Never noticed it before, but the chirp could have masked it.Not noticeable when driving, only when parked at an idle. So, i guess i need to pull it apart to see.

 

I got my truck a week ago and this has been driving me insane. Looks like this will be the first project on my truck.

I hope it works.

Thanks.

 

I have a 2010 that my dealer said still has the original 60000 warranty. Would that cover?

 

Yes. I bought my 2010 months back and went back to the dealer within two weeks. They convered it without a question. Its a common problem.

 

I sprayed some dry teflon bicycle chain lube in mine. I'm not expecting that to fix it forever, but a week later and it's still quiet.

 

I don't know what Xbox 360 is. There is more to life than playing games on a computer. I don't need someone telling me what to buy.
I shared a procedure that will fix the chirping noise. Don't read it if you don't like it. It simply works and the noise is gone.

 

I couldnt find any "Dry" teflon anything. Stopped at Auto zone and Lowes. Everyone looked at me like I in face WAS retarded. Can you be specific with brand etc? Or better yet a pic? This noise will drive me to climb a watertower soon.....

 

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Try a bicycle shop.

 

I gotta find one down here in MS. Not a lot of bicycles haha! Got Wally world, etc.

 

Finish line is the bicycle lube brand name. PB Blaster makes a dry teflon lube also and is available at home improvement stores.