Civic EG

Hi! For quite some time, I am pretty sure my blower motor and all the pipings are full of sh*t. I want to clean all those.

My car has an A/C system, and the evaporator is mounted on the blower motor. If I remove the blower motor, will I discharge the refrigerant? I wanted to do this simple task, of cleaning the blower motor, outside by myself, because it is a simple thing to do, but now I am afraid I will have to discharge it first.

Am I right? Or there is a way to leave the evaporator and remove only the blower motor?


Thanks in advance!

Here's a recent thread about the same problem that may help:

http://civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=15285

It isn't mounted on the blower motor. The blower motor is in the corner and it's connected to the box that houses the evaporator. Don't disconnect the AC lines. Just pull the blower motor, clean it out, then vacuum out the opening next to the evaporator. Blow some compressed air through it. You only have to clean the side facing the blower motor. The other side doesn't get dirty.

Ok, done, I took the blower motor off. Now, there were some leaves in it, but not too much. I will cleane it carefully, although I wanted to soak the fan itself in water, but there seem to be no way of getting it off of the motor.

Now, the questions is - can I get to the evaporator, and still not to discharge the gas? There are leaves stuck there too, I am sure, so I have to clean the evaporator too. Any ideas?

Btw, I forgot to thank you for the help, Teal and suspendedHatch

So.. THANK YOU

You can't take it out w/out disconnecting the AC lines so just do like I said and get the vacuum hose in there along with some compressed air to dislodge any sediments.