Nope, you have the system right. The heater valve is easy to find. It's to
the left of the battery (in my 1975 Midget at least). You push the lever
toward the battery. Even with the valve open, you can pretty much shut the
heat off by turning the fan off, turning the round dial to off, and closing
the flaps on the transmission tunnel near your legs. It seems really
primitive to me, too, but I usually end up leaving the heater valve (under
the hood) open all fall and winter.
Later,
John Gottstein
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Walter <mwalter@luminet.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 11:08 AM
Subject: Heat
> Let me be stupid again. I was driving the Midget last night. It was
getting
> coolish, so I looked for the heater controls. To my surprise, I find one
> dial and a fan switch. It appears that the dial controls the direction of
> the air flow and the switch controls the fan assist. Got home and looked
in
> the owner's manual. If I am reading this thing right... If my SO gets cool
> while we're tooling around, I have to pull over, open the hood, find the
> hot water re-direction switch (to route it through the heater core), shut
> the hood, climb back in, set the air flow direction and fan assist, and
> then drive off warm. When it gets too warm, I reverse the procedure? Seems
> a bit "primitive" to me. Or have I got the system all wrong?
>
> Michael Walter
> mwalter@luminet.net
> http://www.luminet.net/~mwalter/
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