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Blower Motor De-nutting and Incident Recounts

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What happens here

The speaker and his uncle discover black walnuts in the truck's blower motor, which caused a loud grinding noise when the fan was turned on. They manually extract several walnuts from the engine bay. His uncle also recalls incidents where the car was broken into and gas was siphoned, which led to the installation of a locked gas cap. The speaker notes different window stamps (PPG vs. original), indicating some windows were replaced after a break-in.

Goal: Resolve immediate blower motor issue and understand past vehicle incidents

Tools and materials

  • 2003 GMC Yukon XL GMC — The vehicle requiring blower motor maintenance
  • Black Walnuts N/A — Removed from the blower motor

What they say

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big heavy stuff out of here see how the squirrels hang out and they uh load their black walnut feasts so how long has it been sitting here for so here's another little little thing that i did i forgot exactly back in the day when the prices went way up for gas i put a lock on the gas cap you know uh when this thing was getting flat towed behind the motorhome once somebody when we camped in a walmart parking lot somebody actually siphoned all the gas out of it because somebody had stolen my valentine one really there yeah and uh in any event um so this you got broken into in this thing too yeah how'd they do that um i think i left it unlocked when my dad had it he got his nav unit and blackberry stuff stolen out of it but they smashed two windows because if you look at it they're uh they don't match each other for something like vaguely remember that and they're always little pieces of glass in the carpet they never seem to go away okay yeah see this one's got the ppg stamp on there yeah and yeah ppg ppg and then the other two are like the original windows the guy who i had working on this thing a little little guy in frederick which was good because he didn't i didn't want to go to the dealer anyway he lost the official key and so because that you know the official one has like a little it's like rubberized whatever [Music] that battery was feeling it [Applause] sounds like a little bit of an exhaust leak [Applause] can you hear that well there's a there's a blower in there i don't think he's happy with the blower all right so we got squirrels they're rolling around like bingo balls this is built in arlington the factory for that is like two miles from the shop i pass it every day i see the the suspension lights probably on because this ride height sensor bar right here yeah it's not connected to anything anymore that would uh that would make a light happen i think it'll make it to texas yeah i mean as you can tell when you first started it up you could sort of hear a bit of a washing machine noise so to speak yeah and after it warms up it goes away you don't hear it anymore it likes running it doesn't like sitting here and getting abused by the squirrels how the squirrels where they would have gained there must be a there's a bunch of them in there there's more down there yeah this is a whole stash whatever you could hear in there flipping around was pretty loud did you show the blower motor off or did it just stop doing it it might wherever it stopped it…

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