Toyota Heater Box- update.

Afternoon all

Bonz has requested an update on the Troopy heater box saga which when he last looked was scoring Heater Box 8 to LUCY 2.

Well after removing the minimum bits and pieces as advised by the very friendly Toyota man, I could actually see what had happened to the Air flow controlls - not much other than a cam jumping out of a guide and jamming up. Nothing broken.

So I un-jammed it and re positioned the guide/cam and spayed it with a can of liquid white lithium grease (From Bunnings) and connected the cable.

Holy S H I T! works better than it ever did.

Put all the air ducts & dash mounts back in etc etc and then had a 'annimus horriblius' session refitting the dash switch panel. So many additional switches and wires now that the mother wouldn't go back in.

Anyway I finally get it back in and tried it out - just the same as before.

i.e. jammed.

Bugger!

But being the calm cool sort that I am, and now knowing how the sucker works in there, I identified that a cable conduit was the culprit.

When everything was replaced(pushed) back into the dash this little T U R D was slipping in under one of the cam levers and jamming it.

Sooooooooooo! switch dash panel out again and another 2 hrs or so of re routing all the cables and conduits and refitting it.

Bingo! all okay. and didn't cost a thing other than hrs of 'man sweat'.

Finished at 1.00am

Glad it was a Toyota and not a Nissan as I believe that the whole dash would have had to be removed. etc etc. and I would still be working on it. (LOL)