so we've got a glass of wine a little
John Legend playing in the background
when you sit down to spend some quality
time with your sleek little MacBook Air
when suddenly it starts making this
awful raspy sound like it's struggling
for air what a mood killer
nothing ruins the moment more than a
noisy fan whether you've got something
stuck in there or it's just plain broken
you can get in there yourself and fix it
without much hassle hi I'm MJ with
iFixit and today I'm going to show you
how to replace the fan in an original
MacBook Air this video is a great
overview of the process but of course as
always you're going to want to follow
the step-by-step instructions in the
repair guide on our site when you're
replacing your fan as far as parts and
tools go you're not going to need a
whole lot all you'll need is a Phillips
double zero screwdriver and of course
your replacement fan that'll being said
we can get started by flipping the
computer over and removing the lower
case that's held in place by these
screws
with all of those screws out I can take
off the bottom case you're just going to
lift it from the rear of the computer
and rotate it towards the front and now
that we're inside you can see all of the
innards of the macbook air and obviously
it is almost entirely battery the
battery is held in place by just a few
screws and one cable so I'm going to go
ahead and take care of those now with
that last screw out the battery should
just lift right out getting the access
to all the cables that are holding the
hard drive in place so I'll go ahead and
disconnect those
there are four screws holding the
harddrive in place and one of them is
covered up by this microphone cable so
I'm going to have to deer out it before
I can get access to that screw you want
to be gentle with it though because the
fragile cable you don't want to go
ripping it off and once it's D routed
I'm going to go ahead and remove the
four screws that are holding the
harddrive in place
with that screw out the hard drive
should come right out and we can move on
to the heatsink and the fan which is
held in place by a few more Phillips
screws there's one screw hidden
underneath this little cosmetic cover so
you're just going to want to use your
tip of your spreader to kind of push
that aside to get access to that screw
and the fan and heatsink should come out
as one big piece now the fan you
purchased came with the heat sig
attached you're all done but if the fan
you purchased came solo you are going to
have to transfer this heatsink over to
your new fan and that's pretty easy
they're just held together by these four
Phillips screws right here of course you
can find all of the parts and tools for
this and many other repairs at
ifixit.com and if you run into any
problems during your repairs there are
lots of solutions and the MacBook Air
repair guide on our site for all the
latest tear downs and repair videos be
sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel
and follow us on twitter at
twitter.com/randymckown thanks