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+3Krzdimond bamalongroof lowlow37 7 posters |
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lowlow37
Posts : 89 Join date : 2013-02-04 Location : Sweden, way up north
| Subject: I HATE my beautiful Buick Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:58 pm | |
| Thats not true... I love it.. But......... WHY cant i have defroster heat, and floor heat at the same time? When the conditions are like this, i have to choose between freezing to death, or kill myself cuz the windscreen is all clogged up.. Or in the worst case ever, drive the VW. I am considering to let the roadie go and buy me a boxie instead.. | |
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bamalongroof
Posts : 761 Join date : 2013-08-23 Age : 71 Location : Huntsville, AL
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:11 pm | |
| Or better yet Florida is a plane flight away.... Jeff | |
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Krzdimond Admin
Posts : 3412 Join date : 2008-11-04 Age : 57 Location : Savannah, GA
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:27 pm | |
| it was 60 today in Jawja. Just sayin' | |
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lowlow37
Posts : 89 Join date : 2013-02-04 Location : Sweden, way up north
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:32 pm | |
| Thanks guys. A lot. | |
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Dutch Pete
Posts : 421 Join date : 2009-12-07 Age : 64 Location : Netherlands
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:24 am | |
| Why not have the best of both worlds, buy a boxy for winter and use the roadie for summer Pete | |
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Fred Kiehl
Posts : 7283 Join date : 2009-11-13 Age : 76 Location : Largo, FL 33774
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:10 am | |
| One way to get both the foot heat, and defrost is to install a manual override for the vacuum actuator for the defrost valve, to limit the amount of air to the defrost vent by only allowing partial opening of the defrost valve.
An alternative is to put stop on the defrost actuating arm that would only allow for partial opening of the defrost valve. The vacuum actuator is on the far left front (passenger compartment side) of the air box. | |
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lowlow37
Posts : 89 Join date : 2013-02-04 Location : Sweden, way up north
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:04 am | |
| - Dutch Pete wrote:
- Why not have the best of both worlds, buy a boxy for winter and use the roadie for summer
Pete I like the way you think here! I am thinking of an OCC like yours actually. I love these cars.. | |
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200OZ Moderator
Posts : 1745 Join date : 2009-08-06 Age : 50 Location : Farmington NY.
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:34 am | |
| On my '94 BRMW, the De-Fog button on the climate control blends the air. Blows out the floor vent, and windshield vent. | |
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Fred Kiehl
Posts : 7283 Join date : 2009-11-13 Age : 76 Location : Largo, FL 33774
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:39 pm | |
| - 200OZ wrote:
- On my '94 BRMW, the De-Fog button on the climate control blends the air. Blows out the floor vent, and windshield vent.
According to the FSM, it should blow out both, but the floor vent gets a lot less air because it is not the last vent on the path. | |
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71novaguy
Posts : 233 Join date : 2014-01-14
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:39 pm | |
| Agreed within above. Mine does both, what kind of roadie you got? No complaints here. Defrosts windows and keeps toes warm | |
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lowlow37
Posts : 89 Join date : 2013-02-04 Location : Sweden, way up north
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:01 am | |
| Mine is a -92.. The floorducts IS open.. Not much, but they are open. Might just be a flowproblem. I will change the blowermotor, and delete the mechanical fan on the engine, it seems to cool the engine really much, even when everything is -32 deg Celsius. | |
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Fred Kiehl
Posts : 7283 Join date : 2009-11-13 Age : 76 Location : Largo, FL 33774
| Subject: Re: I HATE my beautiful Buick Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:35 am | |
| - lowlow37 wrote:
- Mine is a -92.. The floorducts IS open.. Not much, but they are open. Might just be a flowproblem. I will change the blowermotor, and delete the mechanical fan on the engine, it seems to cool the engine really much, even when everything is -32 deg Celsius.
You could put electric fans on the car. They are easy to install. If you use a variable temp sensor to turn the primary fan on and off, and have the secondary one hooked to the AC (with a diode that would also turn it on when the temp sensor turns the primary on even without the AC turned on), they would be automatic, and you could forget about them. The fans and mounts from a 93 Fleetwood bolt up to the 92 RMW perfectly. I used a JEGS 52125 variable temp sensor, and set it to have the fan turn off just above the point where the thermostat opens. The temp that it comes on at is 15 degrees higher than the turnoff temp. All you have to do is get it to running temp, and adjust the knob on the control box until the fan shuts off. | |
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