Date:         Sun, 6 May 2012 11:43:58 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Heater core/exchanger valve R&R?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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At 09:13 AM 5/6/2012, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>How does one go about replacing the heater valve? The control cable
>vanishes down through the floor.

Get underneath and look up, you'll see it.  Then you just kind of
take the old one out and put the new one in the same way.  There are
some Tyraps(tm) to connect the cable shell to the valve housing
IIRC.  Check the archives...someone in the last few years wrote about
something more elaborate than I did in my '84.  I think he
disconnected the control cable up above so he could lower the valve
down to get to it more easily.  Ideal for a man in your situation,
I'd say.  Working with the valve in place is a nuisance, I remember that much.

Yours,
d