Hello All. Another 126 climate control issue. First off, does anyone have the FSM section for climate control for my 82 300SD? I will gladly give anyone an ATSG transmission manual in .PDF format. It has been nice here so I have been tinkering some over the long weekend. I had no heat and the airflow would never blow on the floor. After re-soldering the pushbutton unit and the climate control electronic unit, the system is responsive to the temperature dial and will try to blow with some heat. Still no airflow to the floor, though. I tested some vacuum pods and found a bad one behind the pushbutton unit and radio. It seems to be hooked to both doors/flaps for the foot ducts. I ordered a new pod today from Phil. Is this the correct one? I am replacing it anyway since it is bad. I have good vacuum and everything else seems to work. I have no doubt I need a thermostat and probably need to rebuild the monovalve to get the hottest heat but I am focusing still on the floor airflow. It seems like my heat/floor issue had like 5 problems and I am now down to 2 problems so I at least am tickling the problem and I will get there eventually. Thanks for at least reading this, I know my drivel is not the easiest to read. Eric.

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1984 300D, 246k, veggie, sold
1982 300SD 301k

Floor heat on both driver and passenger side? On mine, and many others too, I think, just the drivers side would not open. Turns out a failure on the "door" linkage is the culprit. Remove panel just above your legs, you'll gain access to said door, prop open. (I used a spark plug!) Of course it'll be open all the time, haven't noticed any problems.

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83 SD

84 CD

There are two pods behind the pushbutton controller. The top one is for the center vents and air-conditioning and the lower one is for the footwells. If you found the lower one bad, it seems you have found the problem for airflow. The monovalve is usually the problem if you are not getting heat anywhere.

Sorry, I am currently having communication problems between my pc and scanner so unable to send a .pdf copy.

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Sam

84 300SD 350K+ miles ( Blue Belle )

IIRC, Ruben (greasybenz) also has the w126 CD set.

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