The blend door actuator is an easy to replace part. But the blend door is a different animal. To do it right, the dash has to come out, to get at the internal blend door etc. The common fix is to buy the blend door kit, and carefully cut out a small section out of the bottom of the AC box. It's next to the firewall and the repair kit comes with instructions, bad instructions. The picture is correct, but where they tell you to cut is wrong. The cut needs to include the shaft of where the blend door sets, and a triangular shape big enough for it to come out, and to fish the new one in. Then the cut out piece has to be sealed back in, with AC ducting tape(AL) and/or with RTV etc. I've been putting that off, and now it's time with the temps in the upper 80's here. Maybe tomorrow, my plan is.
. When I removed the bumper (and the connector) I didn't wire it back correctly. In my defense, the original installer (at the RV dealer) used whatever color wire was handy (black and white) and the images I looked up online used a blue wire for the brake control and a white wire for ground. Today I ended up tracing wires under the hood, under the truck, and into the connector to figure out what wires were actually doing what. Once I did that, it was just a matter of hooking it up correctly.
I'll have it welded up and installed on Friday. The welder said he'd see what we could do about adding some tabs for the lights. More to come.....
) Turns out the Schrader valves were leaking. They agreed to fix those and recharge it and only charge for the valves and labor on them (the Evacuation and recharge fall under warranty). However, nothing is reaching the temps it should due to the temp control blend door. According to them that's a 4 hour job. I get the truck back today, so I can get the new Bumper welded up and installed tomorrow. Then it has to go back to them to finish the job next week.
