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Subject:Re: Heater controls, 84.
From:Joseph Angrisani
Date:Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:12:42 EDT

Timothy wrote: "I can't turn off the heat in my dashboard. The lever that
opens the heat will not slide back. When I try to slide it back, it seems to
bounce back to hot. Am uncertain how to fix it. Help??"
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Sounds like, as a few have mentioned, that you have bent the bowden cable
that controls the heater valve.

You can take everything apart and bend the cable back, but in my experience
this is a very temporary fix, and it will bend in the same place again very
soon.  On the upside, you will be must faster at the band-aid-repair the
second time you go in there to fix it.

Buy a new heater control cable and take the time to do it right THE FIRST
TIME.  :)

Fix It Once, Fix It Right.....
Joe in CO
84 Westy
77 Targa