I feel dumb for asking and apologize for reiterating an old post if it exists.

I own a 98 Honda Civic DX with the speedometer stuck at 20mph, but that is irrelevant.

Anyways it is winter time and freezing where I live and the car refuses to blow air. The fan was replaced and you can hear the fan motor operating, and when you push the buttons you can hear the vents shifting. Are the bearings somehow spinning inside the fan blade causing it not to spin? The motor works fine. Dumb question, can you guerrilla glue the bearings or do i need another motor? Please help I have to wear 3 sweatshirts, a jacket, and gloves to get heat in the car.

 

Well the obvious thing would be to go back to whoever replaced it and complain.

If you want to do it yourself, take the motor out and see if the fan "squirrel cage" is intact and still attached. They should come out as a unit. The motor is easy to remove. Find it under the dash on the far right end. It is a cylindrical unit attached to a round plate. Unplug the plug and remove the 3 screws that hold the plate onto the car. I think there is a nut on the end of the shaft that holds the squirrel cage on. Though on some models it is considered permanently attached and you always buy the whole thing as a unit.

 

Thanks, I did pull the unit out and the person who installed it must have been wasted or dumb because they connected the two wires going to the fan to the two wrong wires from the fan causing it to be spinning in the opposite direction. Wow, simple fix.