heater not heating so well

topher5150

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I've been noticing lately that with the heater set to 90 it just blows kind of warm air. When I got the engine replace a few years ago they put a new thermostat in, and the engine temp is good, also I had the whole blend door thing fixed also. Any suggestions to what it could be?
 
The blend door wasn't fixed right, engine not at operating temp, clogged hoses/heater core....

Remove the hoses from the engine pipes, blow water thru the hoses with a garden hose, reinstall, burp coolant system. Recheck

Any air in the coolant system can also cause this
 
engine temp looks to be running normal. the blend door got fixed a few years ago and was working then, I wonder if while in storage something could have got in the duct work
 
Despite you saying it was fixed, my vote's for the blend door. There's no permanent "fix" for it. It'll break again one day. I replaced mine several years ago and it's broke again. Luckily it's no longer a DD and sits in the garage all winter, so I put off replacing it.

The good news is that it's the easiest thing to check. Just pull the glove box out (no tools needed - unhook the dampener cable then push in the sides to get it past its stops and it'll flop down by its hinges). Find the gray arm partially hiding behind the metal instrument panel bracket on the left, and try to turn it. If you're able to turn it, the blend door actuator is broke. Sometimes the gray arm itself can break as well, but it's usually the black arm that you can't see that breaks. The fact that you're getting lukewarm air says to me that the gray arm may well be broke.
 
If it isn't the blend door I would vote for air in the system. Bleed it good and see what it does.

-Alan
 

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