69 blower motor capacitor installation non A/C

[Greg L.]

Could someone please post or send me a pic of the correct installation of this capacitor? The AIM isn't much help because the terminal on the blower motor is where the AIM says to install the capacitor.

Thanks

[Alan S.]

Re: 69 blower motor capacitor installation non A/C

Hi Greg,
I took a look at my 71, and this is what I found.
The orange lead from the engine harness plugs in to a lead on the capacitor. Then a lead from the other end of the capacitor plugs into the terminal that's closest to the blower motor itself on the motor housing. The other terminal on the housing is the ground connection. The plugs and terminals are sized and shaped so that they can only go together one way.
I hope you can use this information on your 69!
Regards,
Ala

[Greg L.]

Re: 69 blower motor capacitor installation non A/C

Thanks Alan but I guess I should have worded my question a bit different.

Electrically I know how to install the capacitor but where does it physically attach to the blower motor? The AIM shows that it is held on with the inboard lower blower motor screw but the AIM also shows the electrical terminal on the blower to be much higher when in fact it is also at the inboard lower location. I can't install the capacitor here because it will interfere with this terminal so that is why I'd like to see a pic of where it physically mounts. I think I know where the ground terminal attaches to but if the pic would include that then I'd be sure.

I did have a pic of all this before I took it apart but I have no idea what happened to it. My bet is that my fumble fingers deleted it some place along the way.

[Alan S.]

Re: 69 blower motor capacitor installation non A/C

Hi Greg,
From your new info I can see my 71 capacitor must be different. It's supported by only the 2 short leads I described. It has no bracket or mount at all.
Sorry I can't help!
Regards,
Alan

PS: Don't feel bad about 'losing' the picture.
I have two shoe box sized boxes of pictures divided into about 80 groups. I just spent about 30 minutes looking for a particular shot that must have gotten stuck in the wrong group. I wish my wife would use the pictures so I would have someone to blame it on. I'm slowly scanning them on to my computer, but I may not live long enough to finish!!!

[Jeffrey S.]

Re: 69 blower motor capacitor installation non A/C

Greg:
Attached are 2 pictures from my '69. It is an A/C car but It may be of help since I don't think the A/C was different at the blower motor than a non-A/C car but I could be wrong. Anyway I hope they help.
Jeff

[Greg L.]

Re: 69 blower motor capacitor installation non A/C

Thanks again guys.

Late last night I ran across a photo in Rick Bizzoco's 1969 Stingray Guidebook and it shows the capacitor to be in the same location as the AIM but oriented diferent so that is how I installed it. I tend to think that there is a difference in location between A/C and non A/C but I just looked through the A/C section in the AIM and it doesn't reference this capacitor so I'm not sure. Thanks for the pics Jeffrey, I'll keep them for reference if someone can mention if the capacitor location changed when A/C was installed.