More fun with Heaters.
I read with interest this week some internet articles entitled "How to change a Fox Mustang heater" and "How not to change a Fox Mustang heater". All of them were variously sub-titled "I'd rather have root canal surgery" and "How to spend a week in the cold" and so on.
There's a chap somewhere in the USA who reckons you can change the matrix without removing the a/c evaporator - and this is the same chap who freely admits he's done the job six times. One wonders if he's got the message yet? Well, to you sir, "No, you sodding well can't". If you've got hands the size of a garden gnome and an 8mm socket made out of tin foil and a pipe-cleaner, then perhaps, maybe. Look, just cough up the money and get the aircon evacuated!
This is a marvelous opportunity to vacuum out all the otherwise inaccessible places and wash all the plastic bits that come off. I also found the door chime - now, I didn't expect that.
I also found out why the CD player was playing left-right-left and right-left-right, rather than left-left-left etc. The standard Mustang radio connector doesn't match the cabling of the Halford's standard ISO-Ford converter... A classic example of the right-hand not knowing what the left-hand is doing.
(If anyone's reading this who actually wants to do the job, then you don't need to drop the steering column. Just yank the airbag (carefully) and remove the steering wheel. The dash then comes back straight and out.)
There's a chap somewhere in the USA who reckons you can change the matrix without removing the a/c evaporator - and this is the same chap who freely admits he's done the job six times. One wonders if he's got the message yet? Well, to you sir, "No, you sodding well can't". If you've got hands the size of a garden gnome and an 8mm socket made out of tin foil and a pipe-cleaner, then perhaps, maybe. Look, just cough up the money and get the aircon evacuated!
This is a marvelous opportunity to vacuum out all the otherwise inaccessible places and wash all the plastic bits that come off. I also found the door chime - now, I didn't expect that.
I also found out why the CD player was playing left-right-left and right-left-right, rather than left-left-left etc. The standard Mustang radio connector doesn't match the cabling of the Halford's standard ISO-Ford converter... A classic example of the right-hand not knowing what the left-hand is doing.
(If anyone's reading this who actually wants to do the job, then you don't need to drop the steering column. Just yank the airbag (carefully) and remove the steering wheel. The dash then comes back straight and out.)
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