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Ventilation question

Thanks, for the information.  Is this a procedure that I can follow in my Bentley repair manual and were can I buy a new valve?  It won't hurt the engine to run it link this, will it?


Karl

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> 
> 
> --- silvius14@comcast.net wrote: 
> 
> > On my 1982 the air conditioning works, the heat works but 
> > when I turn it on vent I seem to get warm air. It 
> > doesn't seem to matter about the position of the 
> > temperature control. 
> > 
> > Even if I have the fan off I feel warm air at my legs 
> > while driving. Kind of sucks on hot days (air 
> > conditioning is that great), so I guess it will be 
> > wonderful for winter driving. 
> 
> I never bothered to fix it in my (now dead) '85 winter car. 
> 
> But as Cathy mentioned, it's most likely the heater valve 
> out in the engine bay. FWIW, it may be opening & closing 
> when you move the lever, but they seem to go bad 
> internally, at least that's the way mine have always 
> failed. It's a cheap part, and gives you a good excuse to 
> flush the cooling system at the same time. 
> 
> 
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio 
> '81 Scirocco S '86 Scirocco 8v 
> '88 Scirocco 16v '88 Scirocco Slegato 
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon '56 Cessna 172 
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's 
> Law. 
> 
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