2002 Dakota heater & A/c Controls don't work?

From : ed sherri

Q: what do you mean by slower and slower has this been happening over time and what happens if you set the control to full fan speed -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving i have a 2002 dodge dakota quad cab and my a/c & heater fan motor does not work. i think it is the resistor but who can tell with all the electronics on a vehicle any more. what has happened is my fan kept getting slower and slower and now i have no fan at all. the mode controls work the a/c button lights comes on when you push it on. i can even hear the a/c compressor cycle on and off but again no blower motor. anyone want to please give me some input. i did check the fuses to be sure that it was good. thanks !!! -- .

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From : jmc

the brake peddle on my 96 with vacuum pump behaves just as beknighted described for his truck i have come to consider this as a characteristic of the design. seems to me that the hard peddle at startup has been there since the truck was new. i do recall that the truck had a recall regarding a check valve. now i got to worry about a vacuum leak brakes in 96 rams were unique. some early models used a vacuum pump for boost. most models that year used hydraulic boost. if you have the vacuum pump it may have a bad check valve which lets air leak back into the system and it takes a while for the vacuum pump to build up vacuum again. it could be also be a vacuum leak elsewhere in the system. after you shut off the engine listen to the vacuum pump for air leaks. if its hydraulic boost then i dont know. but by the symptoms it sounds more like a vacuum problem. john .

From : ed sherri

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From : tbone

-- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving i have a 2002 dodge dakota quad cab and my a/c & heater fan motor does not work. i think it is the resistor but who can tell with all the electronics on a vehicle any more. what has happened is my fan kept getting slower and slower and now i have no fan at all. the mode controls work the a/c button lights comes on when you push it on. i can even hear the a/c compressor cycle on and off but again no blower motor. anyone want to please give me some input. i did check the fuses to be sure that it was good. thanks !!! -- .