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1980 climate control malfunction
1980 300td- I have the verticle climate control stack in my car and the only setting that works is the defog. I can use heat or AC (which still works) but if I select auto hi, lo, or bi- level... nothing. Is it a contact issue or fan motor? I've read other posts about replacing brushes but don't know how that can be it when the defogger works fine and blows hard.
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I have the 1980 with same setup. 300D, but I think it should be the same.
A couple ground rules: 1. Defog will always kick in as it is wired electrically and acts like an override to all other settings. We can always get defog to work. 2. All other buttons - bi-level, auto-hi, auto-lo are vacuum switches controlling vacuum on or off. There is one vacuum line running from the engine bay through the firewall to the climate control switch system. This line can cause the problem if not providing proper vacuum. This line is on the drivers side and can be traced and checked. We have to check each thing one at a time and move forward. Our cars also have a bundle of vacuum lines running from the Auto Temp II AC Servo to the cabin on the passenger side through the firewall behind the battery. This bundle generally is okay but individual lines can go bad and I have replaced a few. Check that enough vacuum is getting to the center console panel. Drop the panel under steering column and find the one line that goes to the climate control button panel, my line is green I think. A year ago something under the hood was causing vacuum loss (low vacuum) and this caused the climate control panel to get low vacuum. I found the problem under hood and moved the climate control line closer to the pump so vacuum would be closer to the source. That took away the issue for that particular problem. I am sure others can give more insight on this issue.
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thank you...i'll check that out tomorrow!!
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If that does not do it.... the MB FSM for their AC units (type one,two and three) for JUST the push button part of the control on the type's two and three... is about 80 pages..
YIKES.....
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There are no vaccuum lines connected to the green one. Please take a look at my newest post....vaccuum problem with pics.
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That's the dreaded servo system, good luck.
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