Blower doesnt work properly

[Nordin]

Hi!
New to the forum with my recently bought 5,7L Suburban LT from 1999.

When I bought the truck it had the fan connected to a flip switch and the previous owner said that the blower just worked on occasion when connected to the heat/cold -AC panel in the car.

Any ideas what might be wrong? The blower sounds lite a jet when at max, could there be some issues with the heat/cold-panel or is it the resistor?

Please excuse the grammar, typos and autocorrects, I'm from Sweden

 

[b454rat]

The HVAC panelcontrols. Common with these trucks now. New is like $200 I think. I got lucky and got a new one in the junkyard. My 96 did the same thing. When off it was on low, hi was off, and any other setting was hi. New panel, works as it should.

 

[Nordin]

The HVAC panelcontrols. Common with these trucks now. New is like $200 I think. I got lucky and got a new one in the junkyard. My 96 did the same thing. When off it was on low, hi was off, and any other setting was hi. New panel, works as it should.

Thanks! I will try to find me a used one from a junkyard to start with!

 

[Nordin]

Found me two HVAC panelcontrols for $35, shipping included, then I have a backup

 

[alpinecrick]

Found me two HVAC panelcontrols for $35, shipping included, then I have a backup

Good deal!
I figured you would have problems finding one in Sweden.......

 

[Nordin]

Good deal!
I figured you would have problems finding one in Sweden.......

I thought so aswell, posted in a swedish suburban group and a guy said that he had three so I just had to buy atleast two.

The junkyard didnt have one tho

 

[Erik the Awful]

the blower just worked on occasion when connected to the heat/cold -AC panel in the car.

I'm willing to bet that if you took the old panel apart and re-flowed the solder connections inside it would work like new.

 

[1ton-o-fun]

Welcome to the forum, by the way! Glad to have you here!

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I thought so aswell, posted in a swedish suburban group and a guy said that he had three so I just had to buy atleast two.
The junkyard didnt have one tho

I'm impressed that there's a "Swedish Suburban group", and a wrecking yard there that has GMT 400 trucks in it. Amazing how many places these old trucks have gotten to.....
Welcome to the forum, from a fellow Suburban owner. One of the things I like about this group is how many international members we have!
And I can vouch for what the others say about the HVAC control panel. Went through 4 on my other 99 Burb, think the one on my current Burb is bad too. They aren't put together well enough to survive years of bouncing around in a truck.

 

[Nordin]

I'm impressed that there's a "Swedish Suburban group", and a wrecking yard there that has GMT 400 trucks in it. Amazing how many places these old trucks have gotten to.....
Welcome to the forum, from a fellow Suburban owner. One of the things I like about this group is how many international members we have!
And I can vouch for what the others say about the HVAC control panel. Went through 4 on my other 99 Burb, think the one on my current Burb is bad too. They aren't put together well enough to survive years of bouncing around in a truck.

Haha, well its a quite popular truck in Sweden due to its size and V8. We have 5 kids every other week, a dog, I hunt and fish alot so I need a high vehicle with 4x4.

There is actually a small facebook group for chevy suburbans, like 1,2k members but most of them doesnt have a suburban I guess.
We do also have something called "bildelsbasen" or in english something like "Used car parts" where many of Swedens junkyards post their parts online for us to buy, come in pretty handy at times

Thanks for the welcome