Urgent!!:(

[redvnllll]

hey guys i have made a big problem

last week i decided to install my own headunit, and when taking it apart i couldnt get the heater out. i forgot the step to take out the metal rod from the footwell. and i just pulled out the heater with force. i think i bent the metal rod abit. i put it all back together and its not working

what should i do?

[dufus]

get a new rod

[redvnllll]

how does it hook on to the dial. do u rekon the lil bent bit is the problem?

[dufus]

I cant see it now can I. If you want to know if its bent or not, post a pic.

[redvnllll]

its bent its not straight. but is that the reason y the ac is ***ed?

[Dum*P*ster]

Very likely, yeah

[89vn]

Is it blowing straight hot air even when the dial is on cold? Down in the footwell where the rod connects there is like a little button. If that button is broken then turning the dial has no effect at all because the rod isnt making contact 2 push the button in and stop the heat.

[redvnllll]

k so if this button is broken, wher do i get a new 1

[89vn]

The wreckers will stock them. its pretty easy 2 fix. jus 2 screws.

[redvnllll]

so wat do i ask 4 from the wreckers? and yer im guessing the plastic thinng wud be broken coz i just yanked the heater from the dial. its not blowing hot or cold air. just air

[redvnllll]

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[88GreenVN]

so wat do i ask 4 from the wreckers? and yer im guessing the plastic thinng wud be broken coz i just yanked the heater from the dial. its not blowing hot or cold air. just air

Just hope you have not ripped the mount arm out of the heater box. You should be able to move the flap (air mix flap) manually freely back n forth. If this is OK the the mount clip may be stuffed. it has a tag that clip on and locks the rod into place so when you move from hot to cold the flap move the correct amount.

[redvnllll]

yer the dial doesnt want to move all the way though like it gets real stiff towards the far red area

[immortality]

unclip the rod and bend it back so it's kinda straight looking. turn dial to full cold, pull the arm that the rod attaches to fully back towards the controls and pushes the little black button in. then re-attach arm and see how it goes

[redvnllll]

just cant get it working guys
what shud i do now

[89vn]

Burn it?????????

[88GreenVN]

just cant get it working guys
what shud i do now

Get a new (from the wreckers) heater control unit and try that.

[savage1987]

When you turn that dial, it pushes or pulls that threaded rod. This should be fairly obvious with that unit removed from the dash.

This threaded rod clips into the bottom of a lever arm which is moved back and forth when you turn the dial.

This lever arm controls the airflow, 88greenVN alluded to this earlier I think.

The button mentioned before is contacted by that lever arm at the rearmost point of travel (towards your back seat), I wouldn't really worry about it, mine doesn't work, most people don't even know it exists. The idea is when you turn the dial to full cold, the button is pressed and a vacuum switch shuts off the flow of cooland through the heater circuit at your heater tap. In reality, if this doesn't work, you will have hot water flowing through the heater core all the time but when the dial is set to cold none of the air is directed through there anyway so it doesn't really matter.

Try as immortality suggested here

turn dial to full cold, pull the arm that the rod attaches to fully back towards the controls and pushes the little black button in. then re-attach arm and see how it goes

If it still doesn't move properly, you may have skipped a few teeth on the plastic cogs within the hot/cold selector unit. In this case, have a little think about what needs to happen, then grab the rod and hold it steady, and force the dial over to where it needs to be. It is probably best to do this with the controls installed in place and the rod clipped to the lower arm point at the rear of its travel, this way you can just jam it over to full cold. You may have to do this with it set at hot, this may take some more thinking.

If that doesn't fix it you'd better provide more information to have a chance of being helped.

Sam