Dr.Jass
Pastor of Muppets
Anyone know of any recalls or bulletins on Tempstar furnaces?
A friend of mine has one that's about 8-9 years old, and the blower-motor shaft sheared. Upon inspection of the carnage, Stretch and I found that the hub broke out of the "squirrel cage" and all hell literally broke loose. The whole shootin' match--motor, cage, housing--is destroyed.
Anyhow, she got a new motor a few weeks ago, but the blower housing assembly is still on backorder until at least the 20th of this month. Stretch was able to jerry-rig the squirrel cage back together with some well-place welds on the hub, and we even managed to use the old, broken motor by adjusting the mounting brackets and moving where the cage mounts to the shaft... but the squirrel cage has got serious hula disposition (it wobbles, and scrapes on the sides of the housing) and God only knows how much longer it'll last... if it makes it until the new one arrives, it'll be a miracle.
Stretch said he talked to a couple of people who had Tempstar blower-motor troubles, both of whom got new furnaces when theirs broke, so I'm trying to find anything I can... the website is useless. Anyone know anything about this? The design of the whole blower assembly is nothing short of horrible, and doesn't look durable in the least. It literally looks like it was designed to fail. The parts she's had to buy are pricey, and she really can't afford to be nickel-and-dimed to death by her furnace with repeated failures of a piss-poor design.
This woman has two little girls (6 and 3) in a 2500 square-foot house with no supplemental heat, and it's typical November weather right now (low 20s at night). Being without a furnace really isn't an option.
Any help I can get with this will be greatly appreciated.
A friend of mine has one that's about 8-9 years old, and the blower-motor shaft sheared. Upon inspection of the carnage, Stretch and I found that the hub broke out of the "squirrel cage" and all hell literally broke loose. The whole shootin' match--motor, cage, housing--is destroyed.
Anyhow, she got a new motor a few weeks ago, but the blower housing assembly is still on backorder until at least the 20th of this month. Stretch was able to jerry-rig the squirrel cage back together with some well-place welds on the hub, and we even managed to use the old, broken motor by adjusting the mounting brackets and moving where the cage mounts to the shaft... but the squirrel cage has got serious hula disposition (it wobbles, and scrapes on the sides of the housing) and God only knows how much longer it'll last... if it makes it until the new one arrives, it'll be a miracle.
Stretch said he talked to a couple of people who had Tempstar blower-motor troubles, both of whom got new furnaces when theirs broke, so I'm trying to find anything I can... the website is useless. Anyone know anything about this? The design of the whole blower assembly is nothing short of horrible, and doesn't look durable in the least. It literally looks like it was designed to fail. The parts she's had to buy are pricey, and she really can't afford to be nickel-and-dimed to death by her furnace with repeated failures of a piss-poor design.
This woman has two little girls (6 and 3) in a 2500 square-foot house with no supplemental heat, and it's typical November weather right now (low 20s at night). Being without a furnace really isn't an option.
Any help I can get with this will be greatly appreciated.
