Heater Case Rebuild

[mylesw]

Hello

I have seen Brosky's excellent guide to a heater box rebuild. I am just in the process of taking mine apart for rebuild however I have a question that I couldn't find answered - how do you remoce the vent flap from the box? One end has an arm attached and I can't see a way to get it out without using brute force. If anyone has a solution to this I'd be grateful.

Thanks

Myles

 

[AltaKnight]

Welcome to the forum Myles.
Had my TR6 heater apart last year but I don't think I took that flap off; didn't need to; I was servicing the motor and fan. Why do you need to remove it?

 

[TR674]

Welcome Myles.
I recently refurbished my heater box too. I stripped it down to get the box powdercoated. I too couldn't get the actuator arm off the flap, even with brute force. When things started bending I gave up. The powdercoaters had to work around it.
One thing to be careful of when re-assembling the heater box is to make sure that the fan motor resistor tabs are not touching the inside of the heater box, as mine were. Once they rubbed thru the powdercoat the power wire shorted and caught fire.
Regards
Craig

 

[DNK]

Don't remember how I did it but I did.

 

[Guest]

When I rebuilt mine, one thing when assembling the whole unit back, I used aluminum pop rivets instead of those insane little screws it came with. Makes the whole thing a little sturdier. I didn't take the door off either. Also, I bypassed the electric resistor bar and went straight high speed. Low speed was useless.

 

[Brosky]

Bill,

I found those screws to be a pain as well, which is why I went up in size to a #6 X 1/4". Just a bit bigger than what came out, but still fits the holes.

You could actually go longer on nearly all of them, but I kept them the same.

 

[DNK]

Ditto as Mr. Rego did.