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Heater air inlet duct

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#1 ·
What do I need to do to replace my heater air inlet duct?
I know I have to remove the heater box but what holds the top?

 
#3 ·
What do I need to do to replace my heater air inlet duct?
I know I have to remove the heater box but what holds the top?
i presume its your 64...
if your talking about the coffe can looking air inlet going into the cowl...
it has a flange with sheetmetal screws thru it .
also theres body puddy between flange and cowl....

i know that because mine was dripping water and i had to tighten screws
to stop leak....
 
#5 ·
Once you drop the box you can get to the screws. There are either 4 or 6 screws that you remove from under the dash. Once the screws are out you will have to pry the old flange off. It will be held on with some serious goo. I had a time getting mine to come loose.
 
#7 ·
Is the air vent cable not closing the flap? Actually probably that part is just rotted away like mine was. I used waterbed mattress to create a new one. glued into a tube. One day i might get all the gaskets/seals fixed in the heater box. There isn't any left.
 
#8 ·
if i remember correcly i also had the issue with cold air comming in at that area..the seal between heater box and inlet tube was gone...
only about 1'" gap there...
the way i remeded that , was using the thick black foam weather strip with adhesive back...and created a dougnut seal..worked perfect...
cold draft is gone.....:D
 
#9 ·
if i remember correcly i also had the issue with cold air comming in at that area..the seal between heater box and inlet tube was gone...
only about 1'" gap there...

the way i remeded that , was using the thick black foam weather strip with adhesive back...and created a dougnut seal..worked perfect...
cold draft is gone.....:D
Hey Mr. R,
There is a REAL right-way part that Greg Donahue handles called the Heater Air Inlet Duct Connector and Plate.

Got one of them from Donahue for $60.00!

After refurbishing Ms. American's Heater, it got reinstalled with the above mentioned part. The original part had just disintegrated. The NEW part ducts fresh air into the passenger cabin in the passenger's side foot well when that port is open. The only thing in The Heater that doesn't work yet is the NEW radiator, and that's because there Heater Hoses aren't hooked up yet.

The part from Donahue is high quality, pretty substantial, and fits perfectly. A little difficult to install at places in the process, but a little patience and figuring out what to do next will get it all together nicely. Even the Defroster Tubes and Funnels got refurbished.

It's the difference between doing whatever it takes to make something work, VS how close does one want to have the fix be like it was when it was new.

Function VS Originality.

HIT

JC
 
#13 ·
Funny this post should come up........ i took the Galaxie out for a cruise the other night, it was cold as b.a.l.l.s, . . . my buddy who has a 60' F100 told me he has heat, . . so the next day i did this :





I looked around and found a heater core for $25 from o'reillys [ part number : 399021 ] . i went and picked up a heater seal kit for $25 and im about to go and clean and glue it in tonight.

Never had heat in this Galaxie, im really looking forward to it

I can post more pics if anyone is interested

L
 
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