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Air Door: Service and Repair

Heater Core and / or Mode Door

Removal

1. Disconnect the battery ground cable.
2. Drain the engine coolant.
3. Discharge and recover refrigerant (with air conditioning).
- Refer to Refrigerant Recovery in this section.

4. Remove heater unit.
- Refer to Heater Unit in this section.

5. Remove duct.
6. Remove mix actuator.
7. Remove mode actuator.
8. Remove case (Mode control) and do not remove link unit at this step.




9. Remove case (Temperature control) separate two halves of core case.




10. Remove heater core (1).




11. Pull out the mode door while raising up the catch of the door lever.

Installation

To install, follow the removal steps in the reverse order, noting the following point:

1. Check that each mode door operates properly.