EL Heater being weird

Nah, i thought i had to take the dash apart to get to that, if it is i'm
gonna have to buy em. all the cold settings work fine and the air con, it
heats when on hot and changes with all the settings EXCEPT when i put it
to the upper body heat, It eventually cuts in which is why i thinking it a
kink. When i put the new one in everything worked fine as new untill i
turned it off and restarted the car.....
Don't know if this has anything to do with it but when i was playing
around with it last night on the way to work as it finally kicked over to
upperbody heat from windscreen demist my battery warning light started to
lightly flash, but it only did it then, couldn't see if it would do it
again cause by the time it would have changed again i would have been at
work.
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What do i need to do to get to the vacuum hoses in the firewall?
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| EL's are a tad funny. Next hot day you have (hot enough for aircon). Put
the
| aircon on your face and boot it. As the vaccum changes it'll swap from
face
| to demist on its own. As the vac comes back it'll swap to your face. It's
| very common even in pre-EL's.
|
| Vac controls are just plain silly IMO.


That sounds like a 1 way valve that's not doing its job or a vacuum leak,
that surly is not normal behaviour when the system is working properly.
Vacuum controls have been around forever, the falcons system is nothing
special and pretty simple compared to some.
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It does it in every EL I've driven inc my own. I work for the a gov't dept.
Even the ones we had as fleet did it. Its not something anyone would notice
unless they're a lead foot. I didn't know about it myself till I was told by
a guy who works for Toyota.
"TPr" <Jnr.RemoveThis@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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>| EL's are a tad funny. Next hot day you have (hot enough for aircon). Put
> the
> | aircon on your face and boot it. As the vaccum changes it'll swap from
> face
> | to demist on its own. As the vac comes back it'll swap to your face.
> It's
> | very common even in pre-EL's.
> |
> | Vac controls are just plain silly IMO.
>
>
> That sounds like a 1 way valve that's not doing its job or a vacuum leak,
> that surly is not normal behaviour when the system is working properly.
> Vacuum controls have been around forever, the falcons system is nothing
> special and pretty simple compared to some.
>
>
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All fixed. Was a bad kink just in behind the firewall. moved it around a
bit and is all fine, thanks for the help.
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Is that inside the engine bay? Or under the dash?


"DILLIGAF" <rcrowther_86.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> All fixed. Was a bad kink just in behind the firewall. moved it around a
> bit and is all fine, thanks for the help.
>
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Was the kink on the engine or interior side? I am having similar
problem's with my son's EF when on anything but face level it
blows out both floor and demister (even when on bi-level face
and feet). Face level works fine on its own. I also don't hear
the required hissing sound when I first switch to bi-level or
feet and demist which suggests there is a disconnected or kinked
hose somewhere. I just want to narrow down the search options
before I pull the dash ( or better still to avoid pulling the
dash). Interesting this car although it has factory fitted air
only has the seven (7) rather than eight ( vacuum hoses
entering the socket on the heater case. The factory manual shows
eight for air conditioned cars and seven for non-air conditioned
cars. The connector for the extra hose (black cabin temp vacuum
supply) is a blind fitting so it was clearly never meant to be
there either. I gather though that it isn't unusual for this
hose not to be fitted.

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