Permanent oil cooler vs thermostat

[Lt86]

(03-23-2015 03:23 AM)oldeskewltoy Wrote:  

(03-21-2015 08:45 PM)Lt86 Wrote:  even with the cable not hooked up and the vale manually opened, I'm not very impressed with the heat. The valve itself feels very hot though and the pipes to and from the heater core as well.

Anyone knows why this is?

Yes... You likely have a problem closing the heater boxes blend door. There is a door inside the heater box that diverts the air over the heater core. The control cable for the blend door may be binding, or broken.


Page BE34 (Body Electric section) in the PDF AE86 service manual - http://files.aeu86.org/manuals/AE86Manual.pdf

Bottom of page BE34 is the blend door(air mix door). Move the "Temp" control back and forth and this cable should go through its range of motion... as I noted above before this edit... the cable itself is likely binding

Thanks! I didn't know about the door. I will check it out and hopefully this will solve the issue.