BMW E36 Blower Fan Installation Tool Set

If your climate control fan squeaks or doesn't work, you may need to replace your blower fan. When we performed this job on our E36 M3, we could not figure out how to remove or install the blower fan through the engine bay access panel. The fan cage is significantly larger than the access panel opening, making the job seemingly impossible. The fan cage needs to be separated from the motor to be able to maneuver the parts in and out of the access panel opening. There are some blower fans with removable fan cages that would make this job possible, but they were unavailable at the time of writing. We suspect that some people bend the chassis sheet metal out of the way and then bend it back when they are done. We were not okay with doing that to our much-loved M3. We tried using common tools like jaw pullers, hammers, punches, pry bars, C-clamps and trigger clamps to get the job done, but none of those were able to fit the unique geometry of the situation. We had to develop some custom too