The main question is whether a valve will last.  The "cost" of your labor
to replace it is significant for this part.  The lifetime guarantee doesn't
pay for that.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>>
>