OK, I know this has probably been beat to death but here goes:

I have a 97 Dakota 2 wheel dr. v6.

The blower does not work and I have seen threads that the resistor pack is probably bad. I cannot find this resistor pack. I have looked for it on the firewall and under the glove box and inside the air duct under the plastic cowl.

I cannot find the friggin thing and this is really frustrating. Can someone please help, where is this resistor pack?

Thanks
BobbyS

 

Yours should be in the same place as mine, but mine is an 03'. Here is a picture to help ya out....to the right is where the blower motor bolts in, and to the left/center of the picture, where the rectangular hole is, that is where your blower resistor is mounted. Hope this helps.

 

he is 100%$ correct, sadly for you, when the resistors go out, your a\c usually will still work, all the resistor pack does is control the van speed for medium, when the resistor goes out, you would only have high speed and low. I could be wrong, but from my experience with A\C work, theoretically, your a\c should still work

 

When the resistor went out in mine, I had no fan speed at all. Sitting still there was no air blowing, but driving down the road you could feel a very slight breeze coming out of the vents, but it was not only my resistor that went out, it also partially burned the wiring connector as well, which would be my guess as to why I had no fan speed control at all.

 

mine started out with the same problem, but, the dealer put it on the computer and could control the fan with the computer. i was also having a problem with the vent or defrost selector, they put a new climate control unit and it fixed the problem. they said i dont have a resistor pack. weird to me.

 

I have a 94 3.9 V6 Dakota my blower resistor is on the engine side of the fire wall passenger side approx 5 inches down from the cowl and approx 12 inches in from the inside of the fender.You won't see a resistor but a plug going to the back of it.remove the plug and the resistor is held into the fire wall with 2 hex head screws.When you loosen the screws you have to pull on them to completely remove them as you turn them out.

 

Bobby, my fan was intermittenly quitting on me too. Funny thing was, it would work if I jiggled the key just right! After taking the column cover off a few times, I found that by moving the electronics block on the left hand side of the column, I could make it come on, but not stay. I'm not sure what this is, but I'm going into it tomorrow.

 

your resistor should be on the passenger side, under the dash, next to the blower motor as in the above picture. Resistor goes in that rectangular hole. There will be a pack of 6 wires going into it. There is a screw on each side with, I believe, a 7mm hex head.

First, with the ignition and the fan switch on, try to wiggle the resistor pack. Not too hard - the plastic can crack. If the fan comes on when you wiggle, then the contacts on the resistor are corroded. Turn everything off, pull the resistor, clean the contacts.

On mine, the plug side of the connection (resistor contacts = male, plug = female) is badly corroded and I need to replace the plug.

The resistor is a cheap part - $12 or $15 if I remember. Don't know what the plug is - haven't ordered it yet.

This is pretty common.

 

When I contacted dodge about getting a new plug for my resistor it was $85. I went to a local salvage yard and picked up a plug for $15, plus the $12 I had in the resistor itself and about 30 minutes of my time to get all the conectors soldered, and it was done.

 

By the way. If the new plug/resistor goes bad, it'll be because the brushes in the blower motor are worn. There's a new blower motor in my future, I'm pretty sure, and you may want to plan on it as well.