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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Falcon / May 2006EL Heater being weird
Hey all. Got an EL Futura and the Heater takes forever to change to upper body heat, everything else is fine except this only on HEAT. now i replaced the control unit on the dash and the Vacuum hoses to the firewall, they are fine. the hoses under the bonnet are fine. Does anyone know if it is or could be in the firewall that goes through, or what is in there, when i turn the car on to accessories it makes a sound like your running yours fingers around an inflatted baloon, the squecky grinding noise, any help would be great. DILLIGAF Did you replace all the vac lines in the dash? As it sounds like you either have a vac leak in the dash or the tap in the engine bay is staying closed not allowing hot water to the core. 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. > Hey all. > Got an EL Futura and the Heater takes forever to change to upper [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > noise, any help would be great. > DILLIGAF 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. What do i need to do to get to the vacuum hoses in the firewall? | 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. 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. >| EL's are a tad funny. Next hot day you have (hot enough for aircon). Put > the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Vacuum controls have been around forever, the falcons system is nothing > special and pretty simple compared to some. All fixed. Was a bad kink just in behind the firewall. moved it around a bit and is all fine, thanks for the help. Is that inside the engine bay? Or under the dash? > All fixed. Was a bad kink just in behind the firewall. moved it around a > bit and is all fine, thanks for the help. 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 (8) 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.  SignatureRegards Blue Remove Z from email address to reply directly. |
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