After retiring my old toyota expo rig to farm and hunting duty several years back, I am trying to get my family back on the road. I've been lurking here in the van section since then.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally scored a pristine 2009 E150 XLT Premium wagon to do a "weekender" project with. With factory leather quad captains chairs, she's a unicorn for sure in my area. It took me months to find one in my region and I drove four hours to buy it.
We finally got some cooler weather in my part of the South this week and I tried to turn on the overhead rear heat, but only cool air came out. The manual implies that heat should come out of the roof vents when set correctly and my memory of being in other Econolines makes me believe the same.
If I turn the temp to hot and set it on "Floor", it will almost roast you, so it's not a huge thing. It's just that I interpret the manual to mean that with the temp knob on heat, the mode set to "AC", and the rear fan on, that hot air should come out of the overhead vents.
Based on my understanding of the intended operation, and looking up parts, I am guessing that my rear duct flap or actuator has gone bad. The thing that has me baffled is that all the research that I've done shows that other people usually end up with the flap stuck in heater mode, as a default, rather than AC mode, when the thing breaks.
I'm ready to start with the mods, but this one small thing is in the back of my mind keeping me from thinking that I have completely "baselined" the vehicle. Hopefully I'll be back in a short while with my build thread.
Can anyone here with direct experience with an Econoline (with factory rear heat/AC) confirm the operation of the rear heat? I think that the setup is basically the same for at least a couple of decades back.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally scored a pristine 2009 E150 XLT Premium wagon to do a "weekender" project with. With factory leather quad captains chairs, she's a unicorn for sure in my area. It took me months to find one in my region and I drove four hours to buy it.
We finally got some cooler weather in my part of the South this week and I tried to turn on the overhead rear heat, but only cool air came out. The manual implies that heat should come out of the roof vents when set correctly and my memory of being in other Econolines makes me believe the same.
If I turn the temp to hot and set it on "Floor", it will almost roast you, so it's not a huge thing. It's just that I interpret the manual to mean that with the temp knob on heat, the mode set to "AC", and the rear fan on, that hot air should come out of the overhead vents.
Based on my understanding of the intended operation, and looking up parts, I am guessing that my rear duct flap or actuator has gone bad. The thing that has me baffled is that all the research that I've done shows that other people usually end up with the flap stuck in heater mode, as a default, rather than AC mode, when the thing breaks.
I'm ready to start with the mods, but this one small thing is in the back of my mind keeping me from thinking that I have completely "baselined" the vehicle. Hopefully I'll be back in a short while with my build thread.
Can anyone here with direct experience with an Econoline (with factory rear heat/AC) confirm the operation of the rear heat? I think that the setup is basically the same for at least a couple of decades back.
