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Originally Posted by pjmoreland
That's one way to do it
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Long ago, and far away, in a time before L M C, before Pickups and Panels in Print, even, I broke the Air Fan lever. I didn't want to hunt a whole Control Assembly down in a junkyard, dig it out and pay a whole $10 to the junkie, so I tried a splint betwen the broken halves. A thin strip of metal same width as the lever was drilled in one place on each end and screwed together with domehead slot screws, star lockwashers and nuts. Worked OK at first, until continued operation and heat cycles loosened up the fasteners. Then it became a finesse game of jiggling the control arm just right -- tongue hung in the right way -- and the Fan would go on or off. Unless it decided to jam. Then you had to let it ride until it totally bugged you. Then pull out the needlenose pliers and go under the dash and set it the way you wanted. On or Off.
When repop venders evolved out of the primordial ooze of junkyard mud, I got a replacement lever. I was amazed at how easy it was to turn the fan on.
The same lever broke on the '71 Jimmy. I pulled the Control Assembly and reinstalled the replacement. But I forgot which rods controlled what, the tape ID tabs had long fallen off. So my '71 GMC has neither Heat nor Air. I also took off the heater ducting and box. So that stuff is in the carport somewhere.
In the Summer I roll both windows down.
In the Winter I keep a pair of wooly gloves in the center console, and an Eddie Bauer down puffy under the seat.
