Here's the temporary fix, as mine got stuck full on last Saturday (It was 107 degrees out, I was monekying with the lever stubs while watching the road and inadvertently put it on, then trying to close it the rod bent). If you pull out the ashtray and pull off the dash you will see a wire rod coming from the heat lever and going to the left side of the vehicle then going into a black tube. Chances are your thin metal rod bent so you can't close the valve. Does your heat lever spring back a bit as you try to slide it all the way to the left? If so, this is your problem. Take some needle-nose pliers and force the metal rod into the black coax pipe so your valve shuts off. This is a temporary fix - I'm not looking forward to fixing mine - it looks like a bear. Basically it's just a bad engineering job waiting to break. >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:43:27 -0400 >From: Steve Grayer <sgrayer@ABWATLEY.COM> >Subject: Warm Feet >Hi- >I can't get the heater control completely shut >on my '86 GL any suggestions?? > >Do I have to take the dash out?? |
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