Goodman AWUF Blower Motor Replacement

In this video I show how to replace a blower motor in the Goodman AWUF apartment style air handlers. #hvacguy #hvaclife #hvactechnician #hvac #hvactech #fieldpiece #milwaukeetools #acrepair
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[@joeatx4564]

Thank you so much bud

[@rwcasto]

To the doinks at Goodman- thanks

[@steveH384]

my shoulders are cramping just watching this

[@khx73]

Totally read that title as AWFUL Blower Motor Replacement...

[@tkcritter]

Service Tech wanted 1k to replace blower motor, which was frozen. This was all labor as part is under warranty. I found your video, did some research and ordered one off Ebay for $300. I was just laid off and had time not money. It was hard for a smaller girl with less than pro tools. I got the old one out/new one in, but eventually needed some help getting the motor to sit properly in the squirrel cage. Took my "friend" about 45 minutes to do the motor and button up the entire thing. I am sitting in a comfy 76F in South Tampa. THANK YOU!

[@HVACGUY]

I’m glad it helped!

[@anzeusnarine247]

I wanted to cry😢 taking a motor out like this.. Great video bro..God blessings 🙏

[@jaysonescoe5799]

Thanks for This we have several of those air handlers. Co worker pulled the coil!! So now I know. And damn I thought that was Knight Rider. Before earlier in video before I could hear the dialogue. Yep I’m that old too!!

[@stephenbullock1443]

Great job Curtis

[@PapasDino]

I'm sure all you HVAC techs out there would love to have a conversation with the mechanical engineer who designed this configuration...this is just plain crazy, I would have cut the back plate like you did the other day!

[@creeksidemonkey]

Agreed!

[@OGHVAC]

In all my 43 year's of residential, commercial and industrial HVAC have I ever seen an absolutely INSANE design for a blower assembly. Curtis you're a better man than me at attempting that motor swap. The design engineers for that model need to be front and center doing a change out with you. Then they "might" get a real idea of how hard our jobs can be sometimes. Kudos to you for staying upbeat and somewhat calm during all that interference and noise. Keep doing you and THANKS for helping me feel grateful I don't have to walk that path anymore. #happilyretired

[@natepeterson7145]

That's right or they can pay for the extra labor.

[@mimelio]

Many times the engineer never thinks of the service professionals who need to service things later. He almost had to be Houdini to change that fan motor

[@brnmcc01]

@@OGHVAC Agreed. I swapped out a couple fan motors on the 1999-2000 era American Standard/Trane wall mount air handlers. Piece of cake. And they also had a similar slab coil like the Goodman, and the filter clipped on to the coil with a thin metal bar.

[@Daluke61]

Someone needs to change their smoke alarms battery. Chirp, chirp, chirp.. Impressive work especially considering the god-awful cramped working space you had to work in. This DIY'er would have very likely died of frustration. Bravo!

[@Icy-E]

I work for a company that installed thousands of the AWUF models.

[@adamhyche8947]

Hey Curtis; great vids man! I promise I’m not a keyboard warrior and have changed these AWUF motors too many times to count. The coil is meant to be dropped in order to pull the blower assembly out. There are two screws, 1/4” on both sides of the AHU securing the coil rails in place. If you can’t access the screws from the outside of the AHU (as this video portrays) then I carefully cut the screws out from the inside of the cabinet in order to loosen the coil rail. When I’m done I put new screws in the rails back from inside of the cabinet to the outside. I’m pretty sure this design is on the 2.5 to 3.0 AWUF design where the coil needs to be dropped as the smaller AHU’s the blower can be pulled straight out without coil modification. Another tip for when you replace these AHU’s; be sure to invert the rail screws from the inside out if you are installing in a framed in wall application so you can easily access the factory screws in the future. These are not the greatest design tactic at all. You can’t even replace the heating elements if they should ever fail!

[@brnmcc01]

I don't see how to drop the coil without pulling on the suction line. I've just dropped the motor, then moved it over to the left side, after I get the wheel loose. Turn the housing like he didn and the motor comes back out. Yes this is the 'large' chassis as Goodman calls it. You can't even get the heat kits like you said, the Kw of the heat strips is in the model number, so you have to order the air handler with what Kw you want it in. Like the ones I worked on were AWUF310816, which is 2.5 ton, and 8 Kw of strips.

[@boywhohadatiger]

I noticed the screws but mine were outside in

[@traviexo35]

Hey man i watch all your videos and learn a lot. Im work in apt complex and thats the way i do it. We replaced in summer 2 or 3 motor a month. I take 10 or 20 minutes more to remove the 4 screws in the box where you put all wires with the zip tie. After removed the box pull up and tied with zip tie and have more space to remove the motor. Keep share videos man ...we appreciated.

[@derick441]

I would charge double on that pos. You really want to put the connection at the 6oclock to create a drip loop on the harness. I would actually add some dielectric grease to it. You made the job look easy tho good work!

[@Firefighterf28]

Good job man👍

[@davidbhinckley]

I'm always hearing I Love Lucy in the background.

[@duecefoesubie]

I would have quoted them for a new appartmemt. Hell with that

[@dannyp3652]

Im replacing one next week is gonna be a long day lol.thanks for the video buddy great job

[@Rick-Williams59]

It's easy for the critiques to sit in an air conditioned room and judge the work of others, and most couldn't handle working in 100+ degree temperatures doing the job you do. I look for shortcuts on every job I do. Shortcuts are not damaging the integrity or quality of the work, it's just techs finding an quicker way to complete a job. I personally think anyone that does a job like yours shouldn't be judged, HVAC is not an easy profession. Great video.

[@phillipjoy1305]

That is a mean job to do.😜

[@TheFoxygrandpa69]

Record your phone screen and put it up in the corner of the video so we can see pressures easier. Im telling you man people will love it.

[@HVACGUY]

I tried in a recent video and only the top of my screen came through

[@TheFoxygrandpa69]

@@HVACGUY oh dang I must of missed that one. Well thanks for giving it a shot at least. Maybe down the road you can get it dialed in. I still love the content 👍. Keep it up.

[@callmebackfriday2]

By the way, they say blower motor and fan should be removed to oil and clean the blaze every 3-5 years.😁 Thanks for the video.

[@aaronclark1599]

Hey at least they was watching a good TV show.. nothing like The Andy Griffith Show

[@lancelawrence3259]

Nice work

[@brnmcc01]

I've had a bunch of those AWUF3108 slab coils get a bad leak, 99% of the time, right in the middle of the coil pack. Some of them so bad, no bubbles or leak detectors needed, can hear the damn thing hissing. All from around the winter of 2012-2013. I didn't install them, was some fly-by-night subcontractor for the building contractor, and as soon as the building was done, they disconnected the phone number. Probably as soon as the check cleared, lol

[@aaronclark1599]

Hey could you post a link so I can find where to buy that fitting that allows you to put your digital gauge and add refrigerant together

[@Eddy63]

Good job young man ... Thx for posting ...

[@joshuastevenson1028]

We installed 60 of them exact same air handlers in a apartment complex 5 years ago, since then we have replaced the motors in almost every single one of them. The general contractor that works for the owners of the apartment complex supplied the equipment and now he keeps 3 extra motors on site so he just has to pay us for labor. It really sucks when the motor shaft gets some rust on it! I normally use the door off the front to sit down on the coil.

[@brnmcc01]

Similar situation with me. I used to do work for a company that had two properties with these god awful things, over 60 units in each place, two counties apart. Was hard to get blower motors off and on so I stocked up. Unfortunately I still have one left if you want it. Part number 0131M00414S (which subbed from 0131M00414). Genuine Goodman part purchased from local Goodman/Amana distributor last year, still NIB. I must have replaced 100 of these things, the worst was when they all hit about 5 years old. After that, was just sporadic failures of the module, mainly after some big thunderstorms rolled thru, lol.

[@evangarza9216]

Hats off to you for that work man. I haven’t run into a Goodman front return air handler in the wall like that for a motor change out or pan replacement. We usually find the first co. ones and those ones we can get the coil to tile enough to pull out the whole blower housing and motor. Your a hvac warrior keep doing what you do.

[@Sctronic209]

Hats off to you on that motor charge out.👍

[@babajifahim3490]

get you a Dewalt offset adapter,,,take screws out of electrical box,,,move box up out of the way,,,remove screws at top of coil should have some play in coil,,,,,then turn housing sideways,,,,,,,remove,,,,works good for me,,,,put srews from bottom when replacing the box,,,,,WORKS GREAT FOR ME,,,,AND LESS SWEAT,,,,,[old fart in SC]

[@aaronclark1599]

Nice job man.. I don't know why the manufacturers would make this type of design, I would have lost my patience with that motor and the smoke detector beeping every 2 minutes

[@abcdefghi2175]

MAN !!!!!! MORE POWER TO YOU MY HANDS HURT JUST WATCHING YOU FIGHT THAT BLOWER WITH MY LUCK BLOWER WHEEL WOULD HAVE NEVER COME OFF YOUR CUSTOMERS ALWAYS SEEM SO NICE YOUR A HARD WORKING TECH MY FRIEND ITS NICE TO GO OUTSIDE FEELING LIKE YOUR ALMOST DONE THE WIND COOLING YOU OFF YOU CAN TAKE A DEEP BREATH ! YOU WON THIS BATTLE BUT THE WAR RAGES ON!!!!! 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵😎 NO REST FOR THE BEST!!!!

[@MrTonyPiscatelle]

Could they have built the unit a bit taller to allow for easier blower R&R ?

[@juanpablohisse3782]

Do you have the model number for the blower motor you used ?

[@staind288]

Why doesn't anyone ever replace the batteries in their fire alarms?

[@mattbilodeau2433]

As I'm reading this mine chirps lol

[@khx73]

I just don't get it... that thing chirps ONCE and I'm up changing batteries or the whole unit, whatever needs to be done. #1 - to stop the annoying chirp, and #2 - to maintain smoke/CO detection. Baffled how some people just let it chirp... imagine trying to sleep

[@akroppoli]

They are still waiting for the handyman to get to their apt

[@Demy26]

At least you read the comments. Do you!

[@HVACGUY]

For about a day

[@timmalan3741]

Please share brand and what country this badly engineered equipment is from?

[@HVACGUY]

Goodman. Not sure where it’s made

[@mattbilodeau2433]

I could be wrong but aren't goodmans made in Texas. I know they have a 5 mile facility there

[@sharc61]

You can release the top of that coil and tilt it forward to give yourself more space. The problem is the screws are on the outside of the unit. Given the way that one was installed, there was no way for you to get to them; not a great design. Nice work; you have more patience than I do!

[@stephwaylonwells3218]

👍

[@dexenationgracey1979]

This way is more convoluted than the other way you did it.

[@JohnCLittleJr]

Hey bud, who makes the reversible nut driver set that you use?

[@HVACGUY]

Klein. Also, Malco has some.

[@thesilentonevictor]

Just asking can the electrical point can it be removed to give you the space you need that is where transformer and breaker etc is

[@HVACGUY]

Still can’t get the assembly out

[@hughholt121]

KZbin Goodman Awuf Blower Motor replacement by Maint. man Sept 2021. Entire Blower out in less than ten minutes.

[@kevinmory8720]

You know in the dictionary under pain in the ass, there's a picture of what you are having to do to get the that blower out... like the cut idea a lot better!

[@realestateservicessaleshea99]

I wouldn't be concerned with keyboard super techs.🤣 most of have never done much! Thanks again for the videos!!!🥃🥃🍺🍺🍺

[@boywhohadatiger]

I’m a hvac tech and I came to this video because my girlfriend has this style unit and desperately needs a blower wheel pull and clean and after analyzing it I realized there is virtually no way to remove the squirrel cage from the air handler, so im just gonna install a uv light and let it do the job of cleaning the blower wheel. Goodman/Daikan/Amana normally have pretty tech friendly designs but this one is completely ignorant there’s no way to remove the squirrel cage without damaging the evap coils or removing the coil completely or the top portion above the fan and using an array of attachments for the drill. Great job replacing this motor but that squirrel cage is damn near permanent.

[@joelschultz3652]

I would have been cussing under my breath the whole time😁. Nice to see so such a hard job being done. I always wonder what the engineers were thinking on units like these? Guys in a lab never know the hardships of the field. Should be required that they see this!

[@deanmartin1966]

Seems a lot easier to go through the back of the air handler. Lol. Good video. Did I hear Knightrider in the background? Lol

[@HVACGUY]

Yes you did

[@mattbilodeau2433]

I heard it too lol

[@markcotter2355]

Knightrider is awesome, I think I would of changed that smoke alarm battery. I couldn't even watch the whole episode cause of the beeping. And I hope the guy that designed that unit retired because he didn't understand SERVICEABLITY. good job curtis

[@TomLawson05]

Great job Curtis what a pain in rear they need to fire the engineer that designed this

[@dexenationgracey1979]

More importantly, they need to fire the guy who okayed it.

[@orionwarren4244]

Can you imagine the 'wrist twistin'' involved before the advent of battery powered tools??

[@franks6837]

You should change that 9 volt battery in the smoke detector and just charge an extra 9 bucks on the bill

[@paulmace7910]

What is involved in pulling the evaporator coil out? Probably a lot. The front half can’t be folded down even a little? Nice work in any case. Thanks for sharing.

[@jamesmartello1827]

That smoke detector beep is really annoying

[@orionwarren4244]

15:17 Thank God for the invention of 'Nutserts', eh?

[@jenko701]

The worst thing about the whole job is the smoke detector beeping.

[@kylegreene1583]

Design engineers should be forced to do change outs on their own babies before signing off on said design.

[@mikedillon6233]

And they should have to do it on a Friday afternoon about 3 o'clock, When it's been hot the week before! Lol

[@aprilfleming9610]

Shouldve just taken the few screws off the face plate to remove the blower housing. wouldve save you 20+ minutes

[@robertopenheimer1451]

Always the ubliquitous smoke detector chirp in your videos. You should carry 9 volt batteries Carbon Monoxide detectors and smoke detectors on your truck and upsale them to the customers as many times as you encounter it. If they have a gas furnace it's a safety issue.

[@billsimpson604]

I got a blower like that from China to replace the one in my house which was warped and frozen on a motor with bad bearings. Every one of the fan blades is razor sharp. Like broken glass, you touch the edge and you will get cut.

[@Spikemonkey80]

I'm sure there's some reason they couldn't slant that coil the other way, with the bottom in the front. I would love to know why though. That would make that motor come out the front in five minutes. Or to make that heat kit and wiring housing able to come out, which would give you enough room to pull the cage out over the top. But of course I'm sure that would cost more, and they just design the things, they don't service them!! Also, god bless you for working with that damned smoke alarm beeping!

[@mrdixiewreckedpsn9018]

It’s so it can pull return air through the front with the bottom blanked off if the situation calls for it

[@staind288]

Doing it that way can't be good on the evaporator coil fins, even with the cardboard. How many were Smashed by the time you were finished?

[@chrisroberts1032]

I'd be a bloody mess by the time I got done with that one. I've had worse but not much.Good job on that one.

[@armandotorres626]

Has to be a better way..... Maybe remove the electrical compartment above and unsecure the coil and pull it down a bit?!?!

[@Mitch2294]

There has to be a easier way surely the engineers didn’t expect someone to go through that to change a blower motor and not be able to remove the housing from the unit. I have been lucky to not run across that unit for a blower motor yet.

[@jthonn]

I agree, he got a lot of criticism on the other where he cut through the back of the unit, what are you suppose to do? He said this should be the right way, but man what a pain. There needs to be a new design for this. I would also consider cutting through the wall on one side. Either create an access or do a drywall repair. That would still be a pain.

[@HVACingMyWay]

So what if you got a lot off criticism. You did what you had to do to fix it.

[@ranimouf]

Now, you haveto change the evaporator bc l bet you damaged and smached all the fins on the evp coil. You could ve simply removed that metal box infront of the blower housing case and got the motor out.

[@hinspect]

That was a hard job You would be great at building a model ship in a bottle! I would've felt like one of Pavlov's Dogs waiting for that smoke detector to go off again😅

[@search_eternal]

You would think that box that's right in front of the blower could come out. It has to have some screws holding it on there.

[@kevonslims7269]

Yes that electrical box can come out but the screws 1/4” screws are hard to get too.

[@waterhill623]

Yes it do comes off that’s the way I do them I think it’s much Easier

[@throttlebottle5906]

bolt cutters would make quick removal of the evap. coil, then the blower will come out easy...🤣🤣

[@thesilentonevictor]

I rather you cut the back if there is no access to the front

[@george420]

They need to stop manufacturing air handlers that make it so difficult to do something that should be fairly easy.

[@steveg8337]

That's a pain in the ass, must be nice not working in filth though.

[@dong4617]

That was a pain in the arse.

[@Hvac-dude]

Great job Curtis hey I have a question in a mobile or prefab home can u make a regular furnace a downflow or do I have to get a special mobile home furnace agian outstanding work 😊😊😊😊

[@HVACGUY]

Some regular ones work. The limiting factor is the width

[@Hvac-dude]

@@HVACGUY what would be the best way to check to make sure I'm not gonna do something unsafe sadly school don't teach that

[@michaelburgess7703]

I word weather cut the back off. It was to tight of space to do that job for me. 😃

[@143tinaed]

That was a job and a half. That had to wear you out.

[@dennisduffy5678]

I hope you got paid plenty for that nightmare job 👍🏻

[@clintonwalker2413]

It’s a Goodman. Do they ever engineer anything worth a damn?

[@moonlightacmaintenance3232]

All they had to do is flip the coil around during manufacturing.

[@charleswilson2020]

we should be paying u tbh lol

[@cezarnebun9607]

That smoke detector beeping is annoying…I don’t know how people can be ok with it….hope you changed the battery for them

[@CrazyPetez]

What a terrible design. Why wasn’t there enough headroom built into the entire air handler cabinet to make the motor change quick & easy?

[@BrendanN941]

What a dumb design! I would walk away lol

[@tphvac87]

That’s the worst flipping design I have ever seen on an HVAC unit, wow! Garbage Inc.

[@csorrows]

Every time I have noticed you loosening something with your adjustable wrench, you have it backward. You are supposed to have the thumb on the side you are pushing toward. If not, you could break the thumb off. For some odd reason, you usually have it the correct direction when tightening.