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60 dart
Posted 2011-12-10 6:09 PM (#299305)
Subject: my heater switch repair !



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thanks to those who helped or offered to help ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i used a couple of junk switches to make one . a good set of used cards were used . 1/8 plastic tubing i had layin around . i've had the gang connector on and off at least a dozen times . all totaled time was about 2 1/2 hrs. but that was taking time , not being in a hurry , making sure all working parts were clean , which were washed in plain ordinary rubbing alcohol . the brass plated wood screws i also layin around . i think it turned out really great . it'll last till i'm gone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -------------------------------------------------later




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B/G 61
Posted 2011-12-10 7:49 PM (#299322 - in reply to #299305)
Subject: RE: my heater switch repair !



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Good stuff brother -


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60 dart
Posted 2011-12-11 1:44 AM (#299342 - in reply to #299305)
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thanks buddy . wasn't really to hard to do , just a little time consuming and having a drill press worked real well with this approach . no way would i have tried this free hand . ---------------------------------------------later
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Windsor Wendy
Posted 2011-12-11 11:30 AM (#299368 - in reply to #299305)
Subject: Re: my heater switch repair !


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Nice one Chuck, we have a spare I repaired in the exact same way, replaced the broken plastic tubes with brass ones, cleaned all the dried out grease and relubed the cams inside and used slightly smaller brass screws with a round head.
2 months after my repair I noticed a guy on Ebay offering this repair service when you send him your core, think it's 80-90$ he wants for a repaired one.....easy money eh?
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60 dart
Posted 2011-12-11 11:51 AM (#299369 - in reply to #299305)
Subject: Re: my heater switch repair !



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the nice thing about using the plastic tubing is that it gives just a little so the tubing doesn't have to be set perfectly straight . i also made em just a touch longer to be received just a little past the original seat in the rubber gang block . the test one tube i did , i moved around to simulate terrible handling . it would not break off or pull out ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ya , the guy on ebay from canada wants 75$ plus 15$ core charge or the core ------------------------------------------------later
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wizard
Posted 2011-12-11 11:53 AM (#299370 - in reply to #299305)
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Aah - this takes me back to the old days in the late seventies - back then, there was no parts to be found (sometimes on a junkyard) - I had to repair my heater switch for my '59 NY, practically the same way. Good thing you show it here for our fellow FL'rs Chuck, thanks for sharing.
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60 dart
Posted 2011-12-11 5:03 PM (#299406 - in reply to #299305)
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if now i only had electric power to the switch . can't find the wiring diagram to track the wires . i've been all over the 60 dodge service manual --------------------------------------------------------------------later
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big m
Posted 2011-12-12 1:12 PM (#299460 - in reply to #299305)
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Nice job on that switch repair, Chuck. These '59 heater switches were rather problematic, it seems.

---John
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60 dart
Posted 2011-12-12 4:54 PM (#299485 - in reply to #299305)
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thanks big john .

black wire goes to the single side prong , brown goes above it . the green wire goes to the left of the brown one as the switch sits in facing , with the vacuum hoses on the right . the black one , the power wire has an inline fuse , on mine was blown"20 amp" . now i have only low speed , why ? it'll run on low speed but high speed has to have a dead short somewhere . so for now i have no room in the garage to work pulling the whole heater unit and the glove box . i'll just move the green wire over to where the brown goes and run def. and floor heat combined . once they start throwin salt on the roads it ain't leavin the house anyways --------------------------------------------------------------later
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njlimbaugh
Posted 2011-12-13 1:33 PM (#299564 - in reply to #299305)
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Chuck, my factory manual for a 60 Plymouth shows the following: Black power wire in to single prong on the switch as you said; brown and green both go to a "T" shaped connector on the heater motor: brown to the upright of the "T" and green to the crossbar. I think the same switch was used on both cars. So, I'm guessing that one of the wires goes through a resistor for low speed, the other directly into the motor windings for high. Maybe this will help a bit.
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Windsor59
Posted 2011-12-13 2:48 PM (#299584 - in reply to #299564)
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Good work. You have to be a little resourceful when you're doing old classic cars.
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littlecarl
Posted 2012-01-12 6:08 PM (#303413 - in reply to #299305)
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Check one of the wires to the fan has not chaffed and shorted in the clips under the dash.
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cpd1212
Posted 2012-01-13 8:45 AM (#303499 - in reply to #303413)
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I like the fix. On a side note, a friend used a similar repair for the heater control in an 80s Diplomat with excellent results.
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