4kq issues

[Kneale Brownson]

Sorry to hear about the niece.  Regarding the heat output with the heater 
valve closed:  in my wife's 4kq, I could manually close the valve and no 
heat would come out for awhile, but eventually it would start heating 
again.  A replacement for the 14-year-old valve provided normal operation 
for the last year or so.  I think a new plastic one was around $20.



At 09:57 AM 05/30/2001 -0400, Swann, Benjamin R.  (BSWANN) wrote:

>It's been an arduous couple of  weeks culminating with the death of my
>niece, so I have been playing catch-up with all my projects.
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>Anyway, following the acquisition of two 4kq's including a blue '85 4kq
>which will become project 4kq instead of my wifes daily driver, and the
>second one will be relegated to a parts car.
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>I have been preparing my wife's car for some long distance driving as my
>father will be driving it to Florida for some months, and I want the car in
>top notch condition.
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>So, I have these issues:
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>1) 4 spare instrument clusters, none with an odometer that actually works.
>Does anyone have some pictures or description of which gear I need to put
>the locktight on to fix one of these?
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>2) I thought all the '85 and subsequent 4kq's had the trip computer built
>into the instrument cluster, but it turns out I have 4 without trip
>computer, and 2 ICs with trip computer and only one works properly.   So,
>does anyone have a complete working IC fro 4kq with trip computer.
>Alternatively I can put parts together, but need one tack with trip
>computer, and one working speedo/odo.
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>3) I charged the AC on the silver being driven to Florida, but the
>compressor kicks on for about 5 seconds, then off again for about 1 min.  I
>can hot wire the compressor to stay on contiuously, so am wondering what
>potential culprits I may be able to fix to get the AC to cycle properly.
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>4) The AC problem seems to be compounded by hot air coming from the side
>vents and defrost when car is warm.  I checked the heater valve control
>works to close the valve.  Is this a shot heater control valve?  I'm
>wondering if I should bypass the heater core altogether.
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>TIA for answers and suggestions.
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>Ben
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