Getting Hotter

[Motor Sport Visions Photography]

In a message dated 4/29/2002 Mark Woodland writes:

<< My theory, that which is mine, is as follows:
Even if you have a good vacuum actuated valve, the vacuum (most likely)
comes off when the car is off. >>

Good thought, bad theory. The vacuum *should not* leak down just because
the engine is off. There is a nice sized reservoir bottle inside the
left fender (visible in front of the left front door when opened) and a
check valve on vacuum feed to the system (located below the Pento$in
reservoir and behind the after-run coolant pump).

The reason the air is hot in a car with dead AC after sitting is because
the air volume inside the air mixing box of the CC system is rather
large and full of warmed up air. Once you start moving and get some
airflow things may cool some, but not much without AC working (BTDT for
a year now on my 5ktq as well :(...).

Mike Veglia
Motor Sport Visions Photography
http://www.motorsportvisions.com