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Old 01-18-2005, 09:10 PM
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No heat on floor

My 86 sdl has stopped blowing heat on the floor. I've gone through my repair manual on cd and searched the forum. It seems that I need to pull the side panel on the console to check vacuum and also look behind the radio to verify that the flap is moving. I'll check all that tomorrow. I'm wondering however what part normally fails. Any concensus on what typically fails - vacuum line, connector, etc? I'm also wondering if I'm not able to get it properly repaired, is there some way to hold the flap partially open? I've got a round trip from Philly to Pittburgh coming up and a little heat on the floor would be nice!

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Old 01-18-2005, 09:18 PM
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I posted my "fix" for this, take a search.

Basically I glued a plastic soda bottle cap to jam the flap open

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Old 01-18-2005, 09:46 PM
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Kevin posted in this thread. There are others, and I'm going to guess that there is some inherent weakness in the SDLs that makes them more susceptible to losing floor heat.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=109560

Hope this helps.


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Old 01-18-2005, 09:56 PM
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Here was my original post in tech help since it applies to all 126 cars I posted it there.

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