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Subject:Re: GoWesty heater valve--it just works
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:38:09 -0400

By "any FLAPS" you seem to mean NAPA,  Balkamp valve  $24.14

Autozone has Everco which looks just the same.  Part #5852    $14.99

What fun

Larry A.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:11 PM, levi hawkins <b1levi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ford heater valveAvailable at any flaps
> I think the part no is 660-1140 ?
> I went through a couple brand new ones from our usual distributors that
> operated exactly as you described. Btdt
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>   On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Jim Felder<jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:   I have been through three aftermarket heater valves in my 83 in
> the last
> two years. None of them worked well in any way. If they were loose enough
> to move without folding the cable in half, they leaked and ran hot air in
> the cabin all summer.
>
> Cheap enough at about ten bucks each, but they don't work. GoWesty has an
> alternative for about eight times that price, but it has a lifetime
> guarantee, and hey--guess what--it works as advertised. If you want a valve
> that turns all the way open to heat the cabin, and all the way closed to
> cool it, without bending your heater cable into pieces, I think the GoWesty
> product is your only alternative today. And then there's that lifetime
> guarantee.
>
> Jim
>