Midea U-Shaped Air Conditioner Teardown & Repair: Blower Clean, Fan noise fix, Motor replacement

I'm thankful that I purchased by mistake the standard Midea air conditioner now.

You are a legend, this video is more helpful than anything Midea shared with me. I was quoted $300 for someone to clean it and able to do it on my own thanks to you! Really appreciate that you took time to share all of that with us.

Thank you for the complete break down. Just what I needed . Thank you again.

That was an excellent video breakdown brother. Exactly what I needed to tackle this to clean the fan blade. Thank You.

Thank you for this video. Considering you had to record by yourself while working - you did an awesome job AND you showed everything I was hoping to see AND gave many useful tips. A+ DIY

Thank you very much. Watching from the Philippines. I got the same problem with the blower noise.

Thank you very much. Super helpful!!!

Thank you for the video very helpful. A few things to point I didnt have to rip the side protector nor break the top tabs. Pro tip use some toothpics to stick on all the tabs after pushing them, starting with the top ones. Then you just pull the whole backpannel off in one go.

Awesome achievement! I'm exhausted (also watched it at 2x speed). Thanks!

thanks, very helpful and clear instructions

Thank you so much for this vid! planning to try this one to!

Thanks much for sharing,, thats a heck of an effort to open and put back together but its worth it. You are correct today repair of these unit is costly

Very well done--I love when a gutsy hack succeeds! I have one of these installed waiting for summer temps. I got an asurion 3-year plan but if they ever tell me to "get bent" I now feel comfortable I can get to the squirrel cage for mold abatement or motor replacement in a pinch. I know I'll break some clips and strip a screw or two but you've helpfully shown here it's doesn't seem to be an issue.

Hi,... Nice job, thanks for doing that. I just bought mine and love it too. I know I will have to get into it sooner or later... Hopefully later... One comment, was waiting to hear the new motor just after old noise motor , sort of a side by side comparison.... Overall fantastic job.... Thank you sir!!!

Thank you for this video! After enduring months of noise, I finally repaired my AC this weekend using it as a guide. There was some other video that I had bookmarked a while back which suggested using a washer to remediate the motor noise issue but it was pulled by the poster. Also, I couldn't remove the squirrel cage fan from the motor without fear of damage so I replaced it as well. Maybe some Liquid Wrench would help with that.

This unit is such a pain in the ass to take apart. And like most mini split systems, they accumulate way more mold and debris than a standard unit. I blame the squirrel cage blower and how close it is to the coils, picking up moisture. I know most people will frown upon this but I’ve cleaned the blower and coils without taking the unit apart fully, and using a hand steam cleaner. Just need to be careful with the blower and the motor but it works when it’s mid summer and 95 degrees and you don’t want to take the unit apart completely. Thanks for this video though!

Good video

My unit started making this noise about 2 months after purchase, and the blower just quit today. Will be trying this soon!

My downstairs one i got 3 years ago does this, I have 2 more upstairs that are perfectly quiet. It is also one thats been ran more then the rest though...

Mine is making a noise and then it trips the breaker 😭 I can’t find any trouble shooting videos . Thank you for this video