There is a metal bowl thing attached to one of my heater hoses and im curious if its needed at all. Please let me know thanks!
it looks like your heater is bypassed anyways. you can just cap off the ports on the motor for the heater hoses or loop a heater hose from one to the other. you dont need all that stuff that is there right now till you hook up a heater core.
I have it disconnected from the heater core while I installed the transmission, If it helps the heater in anyway I would like to keep it since winter is around the corner. Do you happen to know what vaccum it plugs into to?
on air condition cars it uses that vavle to turn on and off the heat. if you took the valve out it will heat the car all the time. there is a vacuum hose that comes from the the inside of the car that goes to that valve.
I thought that it only blocked off the heater core when the temp control was full cool. Once you come off of full cool, then it allows the coolant to flow through the heater core. I know that you can have hot air come out the defroster vents with the A/C on, Temp on Hot.
you are right about it blocking the flow through the heater core when on full cool. if the valve was removed and the heater hoses hooked up to the heater core it will have heat all the time. now i have not worked on a maverick ac heater box so i dont know if it uses a blend door to fully divert the air around the heater core or not but its got that valve for a reason.
Yep, that's what it does. You are right, it would have a hot heater core all time though. Not sure how well full cool would work with the heater core hot. Like you said, Ford put it there for a reason. It sure wasn't for looks. I have seen people install manual vales, and leave it closed during the summer. I would not want the coolant just sitting in the core for months. Might not even hurt anything, but I prefer to keep fluid moving. I even think the vacuum valves allow a tiny amount to circulate.
