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heater controls -Reply

To: spitfires@Autox.Team.Net, shmitty99@hotmail.com
Subject: heater controls -Reply
From: KEVIN EDDINS <eddinsk@NRISO.NOLA.NAVY.MIL>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:07:10 -0600
The hot/cold cable goes to the heater control valve on the platform of
your firewall.  You can lube the valve with some lithium grease, or I'm
sure someone else has a better alternative for lubing it.  I found that the
cable wasn't freezing up, but the valve itself.  It is easily removed and
refitted, if you care to pull it apart.

Kevin

>>> "Ryan Smith" <shmitty99@hotmail.com> 12/30/98 02:41pm >>>
Also while lurking behind my dash panels I want to figure out how to 
loosen my heater controls.  The fan on/off and the direction switch is 
operable if not a little stubborn.  The hot/cold lever is  practically 
frozen.  I 'can' move it but it feels like I'm going to brake the 
linkage, and as far as I can tell there is no difference between the 
cold and the hot positions in terms of heater output temperature.  Is 
there something I can lubricate?  I can't really tell where that 
hot/cold cable is going without pulling the heater box, something I'd 
like to avoid if possible.
 
thanks again
 
Ryan Smith 
72 Emerald Green Spitfire

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