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Bruce and Frank,
Thanks for your posts. I drove the car some more today and it appears the cooling system is OK. Holds pressure. I still have the small leak from the water pump o-ring, but other than that, the system appears OK.
However, the blower motor is another story. The rancid smoke that sonny boy smelled was from either burning insulation or motor. Apparently, when cold the motor bound up and the smoke he saw was not from a combination of water vapor and antifreeze. I know cause it repeated this malfunction this morning when I turned on the blower.
It seems the blower will run (very noisily) on Position 4. If you simply place the speed selector on Position 1, 2 or 3, you get nothing except motor lockup. If you start on 4, it will run and then you can then turn it to position 3, even to 2 and the motor will sort of work. I observed that blower operation is pretty sad as the speed varied and sometimes the blower would stop on its own.
So for now, I instructed sonny boy to use only blower position 4 or 0 for heat. 0 actually works pretty well once the car heats up. 4 sounds like a jet taking off!
So now I'm researching blower motor replacement. From what I understand, the "chainsaw" method is the way to go. Since the heat works "good enuf" on position 0, this may be a suitable sprint-time project when the weather warms up.
If anyone has any thoughts about this, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Thanks,
Marty Wolfson
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93 244 185K, 93 244 112K, 93 245 116K (in California now), 99 V-70 89K
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