Davehi
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- 1996 ford explorer xlt
Hi; This is my first post to the explorerforum site, so please forgive me if I am beating a dead horse, or starting in the wrong location, thread-wise. My '96 Explorer XLT, with 205,000mi. on the clock went from blowing lot's of heat into the cabin to blowing zero heat, overnight. I checked the fuses for the heater, heat actuator, etc, all good. When I twist the heat control cold to hot with the ignition On, I hear the gears move and stop (no clunking or other broken gear noise). Both heater core hoses are hot at the firewall and the vacuum controlled valve in-line with the incoming hose moves back and forth (I already tried zip tying it open with the engine running but no joy heat-wise). I am pretty much stumped and because I am CheapSkate at heart, I would much rather find a way to temporarily "wire" the Blend Door in the Hot ("Open?") position than spend a bunch of money on a new blower door kit. Anybody have a way to manually set the blower door to "Heat," at least for the winter? It's currently 38F here in SEA and raining. I am motivated for a quick and dirty fix. Thanks!