Air Conditioned Wiper Blades

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Oct 24, 2006 | 09:18 AM

Augie 79

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From: Palmdale Ca

Air Conditioned Wiper Blades

I replaced my heater core in March and then started on weather strip and interior replacement. I finally got the car ('79 L48 coupe) back on the road this past week end. Very happy with the results. But while checking the car out I turned on my air conditioning and didn't get any cool air out of the vents, only warm. Then while standing on the passenger side of the car, hood up, engine running and the A/C still on, I felt cool air coming out of the little screen that keeps leaves and other stuff from falling down into the heater core box area (I think that's what it does). I suspect I crossed a vacuum line or maybe one got left off while I was doing the heater core. Also the trany shifts a little rough and never has before. At a red light it'll come out of gear but go back into gear if I touch the gas. That could also be vacuum……..right? Anybody else ever do this?

Oct 24, 2006 | 10:31 AM

SIXFOOTER

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There is a little vac operated flapper that covers that screen to get recycled air from the cabin and you can get to the hose that runs it from under the hood, check it out to see if it works. There are 3 small vac lines that go thru a gromet in the firewall, the one for the coolant shutoff valve, the flapper and the vac source line, it is located to the pass side of the distributor

Oct 24, 2006 | 11:42 AM

Augie 79

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Thanks Sixfooter! Maybe I won't have to remove the glove box after all.
I take it by your handle that your 6'? You'll like this, I'm 6'4" and when I put new foam in my seats I couldn't fit! I had to put the old foam back in the drivers seat. I looks bad compared to the passenger seat. The sides of the old foam aren't has full and firm as the new foam so the new seat cover has wrinkles in it (sounds like me). So I'm thinking about taking the drivers seat out again and having the sides cut off of the old foam and replaced with the sides from the new foam. Wonder if anybody else has tried this?

Oct 24, 2006 | 01:01 PM

68427

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I took my seat tracks off and bolted the seats to the floor. Gained several inches of head room.

Oct 24, 2006 | 04:46 PM

Augie 79

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Oh man I never thought of that (bolting seats to the floor without the seat tracks). Only thing is it would make it hard for the wife to drive the car. Wow, it's a 2 for 1 deal.