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

We have a NuTone LS80SE bathroom exhaust fan that had stopped working. We purchased this replacement motor and it fit perfectly! Thanks to the help of the Sparky Channel video on Y**T***, we were able to get our fan up and running again in no time. It was really easy to install, well-made, and is quieter than the original. Definitely recommend!

After months of awful sounds my extractor fan motor gave it's last death rattle. To my dismay, replacement parts for my existing fan have mostly been discontinued. Thankfully the more powerful motor for the upgraded model could be found here. The cost is, well, better than trying to retrofit a new fan with a circular exhaust to my rectangular one. Plus facing the very real possibility it would require cutting into the ceiling convinced me this was worth the price. I have never replaced a motor on an exhaust fan before but I watched a couple YouTube videos and was able to figure it out. The most difficult part was detaching the old motor from the plastic fan because the metal post of the old motor was quite rusty. I had to use a heat gun, a screw driver, and hand sledge but with a few taps got it loose. The next hurdle was making sure I inserted the new motor post (shaft?) into the fan far enough to fit back into the housing but not so far it touched. The first go round it was touching and so when I reinstalled the unit I could hear power going to the motor but the fan wouldn't spin. I turned the switch off and tried to turn the fan by hand. That's even I realized my mistake. After some adjustments and making sure the fan spun freely, I reinstalled again and it works great. Hopefully this lasts. I'll edit if I have problems down the road.

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.

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.