Nutone 88624000 Motor for LS80SE Exhaust fan J238-100-10075

I used this on my NuTone LS80SE bathroom fan. The motor works great, but it was a bit of a bear to install. 90% of it is straight-forward, but there were a couple of things that were difficult. I'll discuss what I did to overcome these issues here:- The fan is held on to the motor shaft by a small tension band clamp (google it). It's relatively easy to get off with a pair of needle nose pliers, but getting it back on is a whole different story. They sell tension band clamp pliers, and I have a pair, but they are made for much bigger clamps than the one found on this unit. I couldn't find any for smaller clamps. This clamp is about 3/8". Normally, these clamps are easy to get on and off with regular pliers, but you can only approach this one at a 45 degree angle, and that's what makes it more difficult. It took me and my wife about a half-hour to get the clamp back on and we ended up using a pair of right-angle needle nosed pliers to do it. I think we still just got it back on by dumb luck.- At first, the fan appears to be nearly impossible to pull off of the motor shaft after removing the clamp. It's not. Just squeeze the motor a bit with a bench vice and then firmly pull on the fan. It will come right off. It's the same procedure for putting it back on the new motor shaft (pushing instead of pulling). Be careful with the bench vice when putting the fan back on the new motor shaft, because you are now squeezing the new motor. Also, be careful about how far you push. If you push the fan too far onto the shaft, you will have clearance issues with the housing when you put the unit back together (the fan will rub on the housing).- As you may have read in other reviews, yes, this motor is thicker than the original. But that wasn't a problem with my LS80SE enclosure.Overall, I am very satisfied with this motor. $70 and a little trouble was way better than $200 to replace the entire unit.

Nutone LS 80SE bathroom fan just stopped working, and replacing the whole fan would have cost a boatload in time/labor, although a new fan may have been quieter...Picked up this motor, a new blower fan for $10, a new housing for $10 (although I could have used the old versions of both, but they were kind of disgusting from age, dust, moisture...), and voila, fan replaced for ~$150, 60 minutes of labor total (take apart old housing, use hammer and metal peg to pound out old motor shaft from old blower, pull metal housing parts, reassemble, resinstall - except for the pounding of the old shaft out of the blower and the pounding of the new one into the new blower, super easy). Yes, a new fan would be less than $100, but then you're cutting drywall, etc...

Complete waste of money. Originally was a little noisy but I could live with it, now it gets hot and shuts down.When it cools down and you try to use it again it squeals very bad. Had to disconnect it so it would not catch on fire.Original one lasted 17 years, this one only 7 months. Very disappointed. For the price it should last at least 5 years.

My cieling fan works like new !!!!

Subtracted 1 star because this does not fulfill my fantasy of buying the exact right part for $50.Honestly that is the fault of Nutone and being dumb enough to buy Home Depot junk in the first place. They are the ones that sold you something with a 27 year depreciation schedule and 10 year life time without stocking replacement parts. If you want to be mad be mad at them or your power company. This part did not create your problem.First the drawbacks: - This appears to be a 1.7Amp 100 CFM motor rather than a 1.2 Amp 80 CFM motor. - The original motor was silent except for airflow. Motor noise is present with this replacement but still not crazy loud. - This is a rare part and is priced comparable to what it would cost you to NOT have it rather than what a similar motor should cost if they sold in reasonable volume.Now why none of that matters: - Repair is very simple. With Philips screwdriver, needle-nose pliers, and small wrench set it takes about 1 hour. The hardest parts are cleaning the gunk off the blower unit and re-installing the holder clip on the fan blade. - The alternative is to spend hundreds if not thousands to install a new fan. For ~1.5X this price I could buy a new fan, some paint, some drywall patching materials and spend 2 days installing a new fan -- no thanks. - Unit works perfectly. Bolt it in, plug into existing connector, flip power switch.One other thing that gave me a few minutes of trouble was removing the squirrel cage from the old motor. Eventually I removed the clip then clamped it in a vice and tapped it with a large (1/2 inch blade) flat screwdriver, came off in two taps. If you don't have a vice a table edge would probably work.but you may require a third hand.When re-assembling be sure and check the clearance between the squirrel cage and mounting bracket before re-assembling blower -- it is pretty easy to slip the cage on too far. I don't understand reviews that speak of other clearance issues. .For me the motor was slightly larger but that does not matter and the shaft was exactly the right size.