Need assistance from the E34 guys please

[Gerhardm32]

Somewhere around this box there's a stepper motor or something similar, as soon as the engine started you hear this motor and a few seconds after the engine is switched off you can hear it again. Now it needs a service and I can't find it. It makes a noise that says the gears are dry. Where is this thing located? :dunno:

 

[Jandre]

Calling Rick, please report to this thread at your earliest convenience.

Sorry Gerhard, can't help you. All I know is that my ecu is situated in that box.

 

[zaleonardz]

Are you sure you are not being messed around by your climate control/air flap motors. I think there is about 6 or 7 of them inside your car.

I cannot for the life of me think where a stepper motor is in that location.

The other common motor issue is on the lights adjustment, but thats clearly from the front.

 

[rick540]

If the noise is coming from there then it's the cooling fan for the E-Box. (under all those modules inside the thing)

You can get to it from under the dash inside the car above the acellerator pedal.

 

[Gerhardm32]

Thanks guys.

I know thats the ECU box and opened it yesterday to see if I can find the motor, but couldn't find anything. I also had the idea of a vent motor or something. The noise comes from around there.

I need to fix the cluster any case now because of the speedo not working properly, so stripping the dash is a must now. Then stripping out the roofliner is must and now is a real good time, all 3 the wife's ventures are now quiet and I am doing shifts and the f*&#@ing battery is flat again.

 

[Gerhardm32]

And there we have a new problem to add to the list, burning rubber smell from the engine as soon as the car is started. In the last 2 days more problems popped up than what I can handle. I am seriously thinking of selling now.

 

[navigator]

Are you sure it is not the aircon flaps

 

[Fordkoppie]

It has to be the cooling fan for that E box as Rick pointed out

 

[Adi]

Looked on the diagrams, can see no fan indicated

 

[VivP]

Better late than never, but what about wiper-blade pressure motor?