Aren't they all like that, sooner or later?    Seems about as effective
as the headgaskets on many vanagons....

   My defroster control cable is about to 'dump' again soon, too.    I have
some really long needle nose pliers that I can sometimes fish up in there
and straighten out the stupid kink that developes in the control
wire.....Who would ever design a valve that gets pushed shut with a wire?

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> wrote:

> So last spring I took the entire dash out and performed all kinds of
> maintenance: fixed the leaky flapper vents, replaced the blower motor
> and the heater core, installed new MBC, took the wiper gear apart and
> re-greased it, and several other things. But the main reason I decided
> to get in there is that the footwell flap cable had bound up then broke.
> Stuck partway open. I replaced the cable it and checked its operation,
> then re-assembled the whole mess. It all worked like a charm although
> the footwell flap control seemed a little tough to move.
>
> Today I tried to open the footwell and it doesn't. The lever moves, the
> stupid footwell flap stays closed. I can only get warm air out the
> defogger vents.
>
> Grrrrr.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>