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Old Jul 27, 2015 | 07:52 AM
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Car: 89 GTA
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Car does not overheat, but there is no heat from heater.

Just as the title says I get absolutely no heat from my heater. The car does not over heat, and when I check the radiator it hasn't lost any antifreeze. So my question is what is going on here? Could it be that the heater core is clogged? Would a drain and flush clear the problem? I can turn on the heater and I feel air flowing, but its just cold.
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Old Jul 27, 2015 | 08:07 AM
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Re: Car does not overheat, but there is no heat from heater.

do you got these hooked up?




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Old Jul 27, 2015 | 07:52 PM
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Re: Car does not overheat, but there is no heat from heater.






These two? They seem to be hooked up. Could they have failed by chance? Maybe I can try to replace them?
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Old Jul 27, 2015 | 08:43 PM
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Re: Car does not overheat, but there is no heat from heater.

Originally Posted by bryan623
Could it be that the heater core is clogged? Would a drain and flush clear the problem? I can turn on the heater and I feel air flowing, but its just cold.
Feel the hoses at the heater core while temp selector set to hot, no blower. if one hose is warm/hot, the other cool, core is not circulating.

Heater bypass valve, as youshow above, only works on full cold (applies vacuum to bypass core). Set at warm-hot, pull vacuum line at valve. If you have vacuum on line, hvac vacuum valve is bad (on control unit in car).
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Old Jul 29, 2015 | 10:11 AM
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Re: Car does not overheat, but there is no heat from heater.

What temperature do you get on the gauge on the dash under normal driving circumstances?
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Old Jul 29, 2015 | 10:29 AM
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Re: Car does not overheat, but there is no heat from heater.

180-200 ish driving, it can rise quite high while sitting (240ish), but I checked and the fans do come on and once I get moving again it goes back to around 200ish.
Now when I got the car it had heat. Very good in fact, but it over time (in a span of about 4 months) it tapered off in heat until now there's nothing.
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