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Old 09-18-2009, 01:06 PM
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Now that its getting closer to winter, im starting to use my heater again, and last week when i turned it on for the 1st time a bunch of paper and crap came spraying out the heaters, and now the entire jeep has a wobble when the heater is on.

Like i can look in my rear view mirror, and the reflection is clear.

Then when i turn my heater on the entire jeep starts shaking and wobbling so bad that the rear view relection looks like a blur.


Any idea what it could be ?

Turn off my heater, the wobble goes away.

Also my Battery Charge drops down like 25% when its turned on.

this also happens on Vent, Heat, Defrost, and AC.
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Find your blower motor, sounds like something is deathly wrong with it...
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dirt daubers nest on your squril cage fan blades been there done that...remove the fan and clean it off prob. gone...
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You are just going to have to pull the heater motor and clean the blower wheel before you damage the motor. If you catch it right away you won't have to spend any money.
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Originally Posted by 4.3L XJ
If you catch it right away you won't have to spend any money.
Yeah, those things are expensive...
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I was talking with my Roommate and she was saying she thinks i might have gotten a mouse inside it also (might explain all the ripped up paper that came out).

Thanks for your Responces everyone.. gonna take her apart and clean it all out.
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Yeah sounds like you have a alittle friend inside you blower motor.

Now my guess is that you dont have working a/c in you jeep since the blower motor sounds like it hasnt been used for awhile, the reason i say that is that when you have the a/c on or the defrost on your a/c compressor will kick on and will sometimes cause a vibration or shaking of the jeep yours sounds alittle more worse then most.

Does your jeep also vibrate/wobble when you move the selector to a/c if so then thats whats happening.

As for the Voltage i'm guessing the blower motor is working ovetime moving all the stuff but dropping that much is alittle abnormal once you clean it out tell us how much it drops now.
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you have a mosue nest in the blower. The big ol wad of paper and mouse has unbalanced the blower motor making the shake.
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