RE: car has no heat

2006-12-18 Thread Gosling, Richard
Is the cable or mechanism that's attached to your temperature control broken or disconnected somewhere, so you turn the knob but that doesn't actually adjust the temperature? I'm assuming this car has a simple mechanical temp control knob and not some clever climate control electronic whizzbang

RE: car has no heat

2006-12-18 Thread John Chemers
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Re: car has no heat

2006-12-17 Thread John T. Blair
At 10:14 AM 12/17/2006 -0600, John Chemers wrote: Please help, I have trouble with my ford taurus I have no heat in the car. I performed the following work: - flushed the colling system with a garden hose - replaced the themostat i suspect the heater core valve may be stuck closed or the

Re: car has no heat

2006-12-17 Thread Doug Braun
I find it hard to believe that a Taurus could be old enough to get tis cooling system clogged with rust, unless maybe it ran its entire life on straight water. But maybe some chunk of foreign material got in the system somehow. Maybe some bit of plastic that used to seal the top of an antifreeze