Ed Esslinger wrote:
> Larry it only takes a compressor,a few condensers,
> evaporator , time and money to solve your problem.
Yeah, that's a much better solution than turning off the heater. :^)
Actually, I finally got a new heater control cable, a gift from fellow
lister Larry Paulick. However, as anyone who has messed with them knows,
getting one installed is _tough_, so right know I'm still sliding the lever
to turn the heat on, and opening the hood to actuate the valve manually to
turn it _off_. (The temporary cable I have is a drug-store-quality generic
replacement choke cable, and does not respond to 'push' inputs.) But thanks
for the reminder...
I normally don't drive on freeways much, but Sunday I took
Interstate 95 to the show instead of back roads. Like I said, it got _hot_
in the car. But when I took the exit ramp to get off, just getting away from
the traffic dropped the temp dramatically. Nothin' like a few thousand cars
in one place to generate some heat.
Larry Wright
"I can't get no-- Satis-Traction"
> > Kevin Meek wrote:
> > >On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 DJoh797014@aol.com wrote:
> > >> Anyone know the Tiger owner who converted a cooler
> > >> into an air conditioner? He would fill the cooler with ice
> > >> and then had a 12 volt fan in the top that would suck air
> > >> across the ice and blow it into the car.
> > >I haven't seen that approach, but I did see another Tiger where
> > >the owner made up a similar system which cycled the ice chest
> > >water through a heater core & blower. I made up a system like
> > >that for my Tiger...it worked great, but on the one trip we
> > >used it on, it cost us more $ for ice than gasoline!
> >
> > So this is a system to continuously blow moist air into the car. I
> > don't think I'd have the courage to install such a thing. :^)
> >
> > On the 18th I went to a local car show which was rained out. Susan
> > wanted me to turn on the heat to dry her out on the way
> home; well it
> > knocked the chill off in the footwells, anyway. The event
> was re-held on
> the
> > 25th and I drove up there again (Susan, smarter than I,
> stayed home) after
> > 7-8 miles in the 90-degree+ heat, I was roasting. Yup, I
> had forgotten to
> > turn the heat off, and the heater, in addition to the
> engine heat and the
> > heat radiating off the traffic on Interstate 95, all
> conspired to cook me.
> > Larry Wright
> > "I can't get no -- Satis-Traction"
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