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    How to re-install blower motor clamp?

    Guys..I have the well-known issue with the blower motor dying. Replaced the resistor and that didn't help - still lots of groaning and the thing wouldn't work at all sometimes, then comes on all of the sudden, etc. So I bought a new motor and was installing it today but had to abort the installation.

    Problem- I can't get the clamp back on! I can't pull it down enough to latch back onto that lip. In the back I hooked it through this little piece of rectangular metal which I am pretty sure is the right area, and I push the cylinder part of the motor as far down into the cradled area as it can go, but the da*n clamp won't come down far enough over the front! I spent 45 min trying to pull it down using pliars, needle nose, etc - no luck. Had to quit for the night. Now at the beginning when I pried it off I had to use a screwdriver and pry really hard like in photo 4-33 of section 14 of the Bentley manual--is it normally asinine tight?

    Any tips/advice? What would happen if I don't clamp it down-can I get away with that?
    Also-the fit is really tight, and the white cage is touching the side of the housing ever so sliightly, but I can't shove it over more to the left (there is a tiny bit of room for the left cage to move over) but the thing it sits in doesn't allow it to move more ot the left.

    Sigh...any tips appreciated.
    '86 325 original owner for 20 years * SOLD *
    '86 325es * SOLD *
    '05 Honday Odyssey Minivan.

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    do you have the blower motor roated so the notch on teh motor will fit to the cradle? i had that prob then rotated the motor and it droped down a little and allowed the clamp to fit

    Russell
    1987 325is
    1992 240sx coupe
    1994 525i

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