How Do I Remove the Blower Motor on a 2000 Nissan Pickup Truck?
The blower motor in your truck warms the interior by circulating the heat emitted from the heater core during normal operation. Although robustly designed to last the life of your truck, the blower motor can be damaged. It most often fails from operating at its highest setting too often. With a few tools, you can remove and install a new blower motor on your 2000 Nissan pickup truck right at home. The job should take 30 minutes or less to do.
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Instructions
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Raise the hood on your truck and locate the battery. Identify the negative battery cable--black--and remove it from the battery with your socket wrench. Wrap electrical tape around the metal terminal at the end of the cable until no metal remains visible. Position the cable down along the front of the battery away from all other metal, including the engine.
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Open the passenger's-side door. Pull the seat release lever and move the seat back as far as it will go.
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Kneel and position yourself so that you can see under the dashboard. Locate the blower motor on the far right. The top of it looks like a tuna can with a black rubber hose connected to its side.
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Squeeze the rubber hose right where it enters the side of the blower motor. Slightly bend the hose and pop the grooved lip of it out of the blower motor.
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Unplug the blower motor's power wiring harness from its side. Don't remove the wiring harness by pulling directly on its wires. Grasp the plug while you disconnect it.
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Remove the three bolts from around the base of the blower motor one at a time with your socket wrench. Support the blower with one hand before you remove the final bolt. Carefully lower the blower motor from under the dashboard while making sure it clears any wires surrounding it.
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Tips & Warnings
Before you install the new blower motor, compare it with the old motor. A lot of aftermarket blower motors do not have the wiring harness plug attached to their wires. Most will come with two or three wires that have stripped tips. If this is the case with the new blower motor that you purchased, return it to the local auto-repair store before you even attempt to hook it up. Most local auto-repair stores will not allow you to return electronic merchandise--such as the blower motor--if it appears as if it was installed in a vehicle previously. For the best results, you should only buy this particular part from an authorized Nissan dealership. This way you get the correct part for your truck and not a match that may not work.
Never attempt this repair without first disconnecting the negative battery cable. Even though the ignition key may be turned off, as long as the battery is still connected, power still flows through the blower motor.
