Have you had the cooling system serviced recently? If so these cars are buggers to bleed. Bleed, bleed and bleed again if that's the case.
Hi, the cooling system is ok, had a 1000 mile trip to Corsica in September.
Got it back together today. Here's the basic problem with the cable adjustment. The cad plated bit should be centered on the top of the black arm:
It's a tight friction fit on the cable. I was able to work it down a bit and now the dash control can go all the way to cold. I moved it a bit further, actually, as the flap sticks when closed and that may have caused the OG pin to break. As I understand it, there was a foam gasket and either it deteriorates and the old adhesive causes the flap to stick or it just turns sticky itself. So now it doesn't close all the way, and there's no sticky spot coming off cold. Here's the result. A couple zip ties were added as safeties to keep the adjustment:
I'm definitely getting my money's worth from the yoga classes. This position is called 'mroadsteryana' which translates as 'cheap idiot fixing heat.'
What I also believe is causing the pins to break and cables to bend, is deteriorating foam on one of the flapper doors "gluing" it shut.
Frequently operating the controls may prevent it from creating too great a bond.
moves. Is it a possibility that the fault might be at the bottom end of the cable, shown on the last few pictures.
[/QUOTE]This is the way the guy repaired it.
Went to the dealer, and the lever arm was not available except as part of a $200 HVAC control box. Same story at my foreign FLAPS. Screw that. Time to make the old arm work.
First I measured an existing pin, and wrote down the details:
Thence to the hardware store to find a substitute item. Once back home I drilled:
And tapped:
To make a home for this:
Like so:
Unfortunately, the head was 1 mm too big, so I had to turn it down. I chucked it in the drill and ran the Dremel with a stone bit in the other direction:
Once down to size, it was time to try it in the control box:
It's about 99% successful. The head of the pin didn't quite end up in the right spot, so the flap is closed a bit before the dial gets all the way to closed. I'll need to make some cable adjustments when we get some dry weather before I reassemble the dash. Sticking my head in the footwell to accomplish this will be a lot easier if I can open the top. Yoga continues to pay dividends on this job.[/QUO
This is the way the guy repaired it.
Went to the dealer, and the lever arm was not available except as part of a $200 HVAC control box. Same story at my foreign FLAPS. Screw that. Time to make the old arm work.
First I measured an existing pin, and wrote down the details:
Thence to the hardware store to find a substitute item. Once back home I drilled:
And tapped:
To make a home for this:
Like so:
Unfortunately, the head was 1 mm too big, so I had to turn it down. I chucked it in the drill and ran the Dremel with a stone bit in the other direction:
Once down to size, it was time to try it in the control box:
It's about 99% successful. The head of the pin didn't quite end up in the right spot, so the flap is closed a bit before the dial gets all the way to closed. I'll need to make some cable adjustments when we get some dry weather before I reassemble the dash. Sticking my head in the footwell to accomplish this will be a lot easier if I can open the top. Yoga continues to pay dividends on this job.[/QUOTE
Not anymore, Photobucket have bombed them out.
No, they were not my photos.