Success! Ohhhh nooooo...
Well got the floor-board and the gas pedal fitting welded in today. very thorough job I have my gas pedal back in full proper use. I even repositioned that pedal stop... guess which way I adjusted it...
But dang it all to h e double hockey sticks if I didn't end up with some issue after everything was back in.
heat,heat all the time, put the AC on,dial to full cold and you could boil an egg... its hot.. Where oh where to begin.. My first suspicion was the welding somehow smoked the Heater Vales wiring. it is pretty delicate from what i remember looking at the one i replaced a few months ago. That's one possibility i guess. Fried IHKA? What about the Resistor.. doesn't seem to be much that could go wrong with that... Then there are the controls.. had that off and unplugged to open it and replace that tiny face bulb.. maybe i F'ed that somehow... broke a wire? Forgot to reconnect some plug? I get fan speed response but its full heat all the time . I see the ac and recycle buttons light up and i get the stepper motors shutting the vents and hear/feel the AC compressor kick in did the welding maybe blow a fuse? I'll begin looking tomorrow.I seem to remember a White Three hole plug in the center control area in the wiring for which i didn't find a mate.. but i remember after doing the heater core there were unused plugs so I didn't sweat it.. maybe that connects the Vent Wheel Temp Dial .. This guy only charged me $125.00 I was surprised. I never asked him what he was going to charge me and all day he had mentioned in conversation costs of other jobs he had or had been asked to consider doing and I expected a bit more ... well at least i can put this episode in the past and head into Winter with solid floor-board and a steady gas pedal that goes much further to the floor than it used to .lol
Last edited by Jehu; 09-22-2008 at 06:42 PM.
1995 540i Manual build 1/95