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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 07:47 PM
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After suffering for a year with the hot driver side and cold passenger side and adding freon, I finally bit the bullet and bought a new accuator. Spent 4 hours installing it today with the up under dash system. The accuator is actually easier to get to than I thought but my long arms didn't help. I removed my driver seat and put a pillow in its place so I could lay in there more comfortably. Of course the biggest time consumer is removing the waterfall on vert, console, shift ****, boot, radio faceplate, knee bolster, etc etc etc. Once it's all out the accuator is quite easy. Anyway... Shes' blowing COLD again......!! I didn't want to do the indexing method as I was afraid if I got it all apart I would find a broken gear rather than bad teeth so I bought a new 2002 accuator. Found bad teeth, so now I will index and have a spare. 2 weeks of 85-90 in Michigan got me moving...
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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 08:36 PM
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Great job!! Can you snap a picture of the carnage in the actuator and post it??

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Great job!! Can you snap a picture of the carnage in the actuator and post it??

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Yep, we need some pics
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Old Jul 19, 2010 | 10:19 PM
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I will try to get a picture, but really not carnage. Just 2 of the plastic teeth worn about half off. Don't look that bad, but I guess just enough to lock it up. Ran it 300 miles today with nice cold air.
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