Carrier Weathermaker 9200 Model # 58MXA060-12112
When trying to remove the blower motor from the housing it is attached to one of the bolts started to spin. Unless I get real lucky I will need the blower motor hood or whatever it is called. My newest problem is I can't seem to find it on the web. What is the correct term to use when looking for that item?

 

Are you trying to remove the motor? Which screw is spinning? shoot us a pic or 2.
Geo

 

That would be the blower housing

 

The spinning bolt is one of three that secure the motor to the metal housing that contains the motor and squirrel cage. The nut ( for the sake of a better word) that the bolt goes into is pressed into the sheet metal and appears to be spinning. I'll see if I can figure out how to include a photo.

 

That happens more often then it should.
You can drill the threaded part out and put in a conventional nut/bolt.

 

Could not reach the pressed on nut until I got the motor and squirrel cage out. I don't know if this is the standard configuration, however, the motor was held into place by a metal band that tightens around it. There are three L brackets that slide between the motor and the metal band and then attach to the housing. I loosened the band and was able to remove the two brackets that were already loosened, slide the motor out and then remove the squirrel cage. Once the cage was out I used vise grips on the nipple of the pressed in nut that spun and was able to remove the bolt and the third bracket. I dropped the housing off to have all three nuts tack welded in place for $40.

 

I didn't drill and use a standard nut because I would not be able to reach it unless everything was taken apart again. I swear I searched under blower housing and didn't find anything the first time. Thanks roughneck77. I did find the housing (about $150) the next time I searched.

 

That will work.

I use a product called a nutsert. It's put in the drilled hole and then a tool compresses it and it becomes a threaded nut set in the housing.

 

Very Cool.
I am replacing the Blower Motor. The furnace calls for Model # HC41AE117 and runs $218 and up. On Repair Clinic they have an equivalent, part # 3S044 Made by Regal Beloit under the name Genteq. I found it for $165 on site and $65 at another. I verified with Genteq that they are a supplier and that the motor isn't rebuilt.Any reason not to purchase the less expensive model?

 

Received and installed new motor, $80 w/shipping and a Cap. Installed like a dream plugged right in. It may have taken care of a slow heat rise issue I have had, or not. For now I have heat and will monitor things for the next few days. Only charged $30 to tack weld all 3 pressed on nuts.
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