Heater problem!

[BristolBHPboy]

Hi there i seem to only have heat blowing on the passenger side and/or the windscreen but not out of my right hand drivers side vent. I have an old mk1 chim..any ideas how i can fix this???

Any help would be apreciated thanks!

[V8 Animal]

Has the pipe come away under the dash?

[BristolBHPboy]

Hello there, no the pipe seems fine comes out from the right of the footwell and goes into the rear of the vent.
????????

[MADMAX2]

Ive got a mk1 chim is the vent the drivers dashboard vent or the drivers footwell vent thats not working?

[spend]

The hot air one is down by your left knee (Its on the end of that big hose that goes across the engine bay behind the cylinder heads)

[mb450]

You're near me (relatively speaking) if you need another pair of eyes or a hand with it let me know I've done a fair bit of tinkering on mine now

[BristolBHPboy]

mb450 said:

You're near me (relatively speaking) if you need another pair of eyes or a hand with it let me know I've done a fair bit of tinkering on mine now

Hi there im up your way tomorrow as im overnighting at great malvern if you are around ?????

[K4TRV]

BristolBHPboy said:

Hi there i seem to only have heat blowing on the passenger side and/or the windscreen but not out of my right hand drivers side vent. I have an old mk1 chim..any ideas how i can fix this???

Any help would be apreciated thanks!

Lots of responses, but no-one has actually said that the Driver side does NOT provide hot air and never did !!

You can change that by somehow tapping into the one above your left knee under the dash as referred to by Spend.

In summer you'll be glad of current set-up !!

Trev McM

[mb450]

BristolBHPboy said:

mb450 said:

You're near me (relatively speaking) if you need another pair of eyes or a hand with it let me know I've done a fair bit of tinkering on mine now

Hi there im up your way tomorrow as im overnighting at great malvern if you are around ?????

Typical I'm in London all day tomorrow - the only day that I'll be away this week

[BristolBHPboy]

Not to worry...If you are around on Sunday i've been told a group of the Bristol TVR's are planning an outing to Cheddar Gorge why not come along??

P

[Slikk]

Not sure if you mean the one in the footwell - this one has moveable louvres on it, which might have closed up and are stopping the air flow.

[BristolBHPboy]

Sorted now...found the footwell one it seems to work fine...the dash driverside comes from the tube behind the front grill i take it??? So no heat from that one then?

[spend]

Its 'plumbed' to the inner wing, the whole inner wing is fed with air from behind the headlamps at both sides. Heater on left, fresh air vent on right.

ETA: some of the fresh air vents have blower motors installed in the inner wing (mainly 500's & some others).

Edited by spend on Thursday 13th November 19:31

[keith24]

My chim suffers from the same problem and I was just about to start taking the dash apart. Just to be clear - the one to the right of the steering wheel always is cold, fed from the wing area. The one in the footwell is the only one that provides heat.