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Dodge dakota blend door fix.
It s a small inexpensive part but it s buried in the heater box and the dealer repair requires removing your steering column your dash panel disconnecting your ac system and radiator in order to remove the heater box only to replace the blend door with the same weak poorly designed part that failed in the first place.
An actuator can go bad in of two ways.
This is just something to give him heat for the winter.
A blend door actuator is made up of an electric motor that turns a plastic gear set in one direction or another which is connected to an air control door pivot at the final drive of the unit.
I ve removed the heat blend door actuator thinking it is the probem.
Red hound auto recirculation blend door repair kit easy replacement compatible with dodge ram 1500 2002 2008 2500 3500 2003 2010 4500 5500 2008 2010 4 6 out of 5 stars 124 29 01 29.
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In this video i demonstrate how to repair a broken blend door actuator in a 2001 dodge ram 1500 using a repair kit from a company called heater treater.
First the electric motor can burn out rendering the unit non responsive so nothing changes when the temperature or.
My 2002 dodge dakota has no cabin heat i ve got heat to the core so i suspect that there is an issue with the blend door.
Buddy didn t have any heat cause of the famous broken blend door.