E30 HVAC Blower Motor Installation

[ak96ss]

OK, what's the trick to getting that metal strap around the blower motor to actually seat and lock the motor in place?

Apparently I am not getting it right, because I cannot get the thing to go on.

Words of wisdom?

[twright]

The motor has to be properly "clocked" and installed in the correct orientation or it will not be seated enough for the strap to be connected.  There is a "dent" in the motor that has to line up with the raised bump on the mounting location.  You have to look at it carefully, because its not real obvious.

[ak96ss]

Nope, got the motor clocked, but the damned spring wouldn't seat. Finally it kept bending, so I used a stainless zip tie and strapped the motor down - apparently there are none of those straps to be had in the U.S. inventory, and I need to get the damned thing back together after 2 years of being apart.

I think it was a combination of the plastic where the strap hooks being somewhat worn from the PO (surely it wasn't me!:)) and the spring steel losing it's 'spring'. We'll see if it works - if it does, I'm done; if not, I'll have to take it all apart again much later...