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#2
Team Owner
Check radiator thermostat and heater control valve and then routing of heater hoses to make sure flow is correct.... Sometimes owner's will bypass a leaky heater core...
#4
Drifting
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First check and see if heater hoses are getting warm, AC cars use a heater control valve that could be stopping the flow of coolant through the heater core.
#5
Safety Car
... A very good chance it's the heater control valve, the valve acts much like a thermostat in the way it regulates the amount of heat produced by the heater for fluid to flow through the heater core. If not for the heater core valve in a A/C car, the vehicle's heater would be in a continuous state of warming the passenger compartment. This affects the efficiency of the air conditioning as the cold air is competing with the warm air in the attempt to exit the vehicle's heating, and cooling vents.
-Bruce
-Bruce
#6
Melting Slicks
COLD air? Or just unheated?
By the way, I would suggest that in the future, you might want to give a somewhat more descriptive title. That way, folks who are well-informed on the subject will see it and folks who are not all that familiar with topic know that it's a thread they might want to skip over.
#7
Instructor
Thread Starter
It's just blows air....not cold....but not heated...is there a way to test valve? Or they just go bad? SI67 got it on title? Thanks.
Last edited by LAPII; 03-02-2015 at 01:41 PM.
#8
Safety Car
-Bruce