Front blower motor, Replacing Options

[shane]

My blower motor never worked and I took my tank out and painting my trunk. So I took out the blower cleaned the terminals were it gets juice and it ran good, it's kinda of firm to spin but seems ok. Is there a good alternative to a $90 Bosch motor just don't want to have to pull my tank later. What's the chance of the old one lasting? Thanks

[Junebug]

The motors are strong, you need to look inside if you feel it is hard to rotate. When I tore into mine as a non-running unit, I had power to the fan, but did not go. Years of pine needles and other debris had found their way into the impeller and broken a few housing bits, that in turn wedged themselves perfectly stopping the rotation. after a good cleaning and new brushes motor runs good. Some plastic welding of the housing and then I added the black aluminum window screen over the stock inlet grill under the body vents that I read about here. You might be able to see through the two drain outlets before splitting the housing. My experience 2p