Triumph Repair: heater motor wiring, permanent magnet motor, fan blows air


Question
I need to hook up a new heater motor in my 72 tr-6.  The problem is a rat got
into the heater motor/fan housing and destroyed the wiring on the inside.  
I've the gr/y and gr wire coming into the housing and the black ground wire
coming out of the housing.  I just can't fiqure out how the resistor is wired in.  
I've got the gr/y tab w/ female fitting attched to the fan motor and the black
grd wire w/ female fitting attached to the fan motor.  The green wire was
loose in the housing w/ no fittings attached to either end.  I can see on the
resistor where a wire was soldered at each.   Any suggestion??

Answer
Hi Dan,
I don't have anything that tells me which of the two wires from the harness are high speed and which is low speed but it does not matter at this point.
The one wire from the harness went to one side of the resistor, the other harness wire went to the other side of the resistor. There should be two motor wires. One motor wire should go to a ground and the other motor wire should go to one end of the resistor with one of the harness wires. At this point you should be able to turn the fan on. When you turn the fan on high if it goes on high it is ok, but if the fan is fast on low and slow on high switch the two harness wires. Your not done. A fan motor is a permanent magnet motor which means if the two motor wires are reversed the fan will turn in the wrong direction. The trouble is that "Cage" type fan blows air in the same direction no matter which way the motor is turning but it blows good in the correct direction and blows not so good in the other so you need to feel the amount of air then reverse the motor wires to see which blows the best.
Sorry I don't have a good diagram that shows what the colors are in the motor area. But what I outlined will work.
Howard