Re: typ44 evap flap question

["Stephen Bigelow" <sbigelow@sprint.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: JordanVw@aol.com <JordanVw@aol.com>
To: quattro@audifans.com <quattro@audifans.com>
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 6:58 PM
Subject: typ44 evap flap question


>hey, all.. i finally got my a/c to blow out my dash vents today on my '86
5kT
>(now that winter is almost here :<)  i installed that little steel C clip
fix
>thing over the remainder of the broken evap flap vacuum mount, and got it
all
>backtogether (i ended up heating a finishing nail up w/ a torch, and
melting
>the screw pilot holes in the plastic because there's NO way you can get a
>drill in there..) it appears to work well.   anyway, heres my question -
>when the climate control is off - is the evap door supposed to be open to
the
>engine compartment? or closed?  (its open now) i always thought it should
be
>closed...i pulled alot of leaves out of there.


Not sure which way is which, but the solenoid should _release_...one of it's
failure modes is not to. This results in the heater valve being held closed
when it should be (and the programmer thinks it is) open, as it and the
recirc door are on the same vacuum circuit.