[V8] installing spring / fog up

[Buchholz, Steven]

... if you need a quick fix you can always wedge the recirc door open ...
lift up the plastic cover that covers the shelf at the back of the engine
compartment, push the recirc door back towards the passenger compartment and
stick something in the gap to keep the door open.  In most situations this
is the normal operating position, so this should tide you over until you
have the proper repair parts and warmer weather ... 

If you aren't getting any heat it may be that the vacuum line that actuates
the recirc door has come loose ... this also prevents the heater control
valve from getting actuated.

Steve B
San Jose, Kaleefohnia (USA)
> 
> If you have long, thin arms, and if all you need is to rehook 
> the spring
> (because an end broke off the spring and you formed a new one 
> or got a new
> spring), you can do it without taking out the glovebox.  If 
> you have short,
> fat arms like I do and need to get two hands up in there to 
> repair a broken
> plastic anchor for the spring (ie, if you find the spring 
> with both end
> loops intact), you need to remove the glovebox.  That's not a 
> REAL biggie:
> take off the dash end cover and you can visualize the screws 
> you have to
> loosen in the top of the glovebox to get it to slide sideways and out.
> 
> At 09:03 PM 12/17/2003 -0600, Steven Kramer wrote:
> >Okay,  I'm sick of being the frosty mug.  Is there a simple way to 
> >install the spring on the recirc vent.    Keith of AC said I 
> could do 
> >this without removing the glove compartment.  Need to get 
> this done or 
> >I think I'll duct tape the thing closed !!!