A/C button exploded. Need parts.
03-27-2010 | 07:12 PM
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A/C button exploded. Need parts.
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Anybody got a non-functioning heater control unit they'd be willing to let go cheap?
Or specifically, steal a part or two off of?
Did a dash swap yesterday (out with the old crusty cracked dash and in with a shiny new crack free one.) While removing the heater controls, I must've nudged the A/C button the wrong way because it fell out. THen it exploded with springs and little dogbone things flying everywhere. Upon further inspection it looks like it's been apart before. And sadly, the A/C button itself is not removeable from the rest of the assembly like I hear some are.
I figured out how to get it all back together... but I lost one of the teeny tiny little springs that go in the SIDE of the button, behind the little dogbone things. That and the button itself (the part you physically push in/out) looks like its tabs are broken off (which would explain why it fell out so easily.)
Anybody have an old non-functioning junk heater control unit kicking around that they'd be willing to steal the A/C button out of? All I NEED (to get it back together) is one little spring, but if you're gonna take it apart anyways and would like to send me the button part too (just the part your finger pushes, as the rest of the switch in mine is permanent to the heater control), that'd be super sweet.
I can paypal a couple bucks to cover a case of beer or something for your troubles. I really don't want to have to buy an entire heater control unit for one $0.01 spring.
Anybody got a non-functioning heater control unit they'd be willing to let go cheap?
Or specifically, steal a part or two off of?
Did a dash swap yesterday (out with the old crusty cracked dash and in with a shiny new crack free one.) While removing the heater controls, I must've nudged the A/C button the wrong way because it fell out. THen it exploded with springs and little dogbone things flying everywhere. Upon further inspection it looks like it's been apart before. And sadly, the A/C button itself is not removeable from the rest of the assembly like I hear some are.
I figured out how to get it all back together... but I lost one of the teeny tiny little springs that go in the SIDE of the button, behind the little dogbone things. That and the button itself (the part you physically push in/out) looks like its tabs are broken off (which would explain why it fell out so easily.)
Anybody have an old non-functioning junk heater control unit kicking around that they'd be willing to steal the A/C button out of? All I NEED (to get it back together) is one little spring, but if you're gonna take it apart anyways and would like to send me the button part too (just the part your finger pushes, as the rest of the switch in mine is permanent to the heater control), that'd be super sweet.
I can paypal a couple bucks to cover a case of beer or something for your troubles. I really don't want to have to buy an entire heater control unit for one $0.01 spring.
