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Subject:Re: GoWesty heater valve--it just works
From:Jim Felder
Date:Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:41:45 +0000

OK you have me beat by at least a factor of four on the price. But what
about that lifetime guarantee, considering the most of us have already had
these things for 20+ years?

Jim

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:38 PM Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>