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#1 Posted : Tuesday, 4 December 2007 12:35:56 AM(UTC)
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Hi all,

The heater on my WB stato stays on regardless of where the setting of the dash control is. It's a vacuum operated unit by the looks of it, now what is more likely, the dash unit has failed or the unit on the heater hose in the engine bay has stuck open??

Thanks in advance!

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Peter

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#2 Posted : Tuesday, 4 December 2007 2:08:39 AM(UTC)
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Hi Peter .

Either is possible but they are easy to check.

The water valve is failsafe. What I mean buy that is, if there is no vacuum, then the water will flow. It needs the vacuum applied to close. So, with the motor running & the heater set to col
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11:29:35 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Doc, as always very helpful!!

Peter

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#4 Posted : Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11:29:35 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Doc, as always very helpful!!

Peter

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#5 Posted : Wednesday, 5 December 2007 7:30:24 PM(UTC)
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Tested it last night, plenty of vacuum through the line when heater off, no vacuum when heater switch on, so must be the valve I guess. Thanks again Doc.

Peter

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#6 Posted : Wednesday, 5 December 2007 7:30:24 PM(UTC)
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Tested it last night, plenty of vacuum through the line when heater off, no vacuum when heater switch on, so must be the valve I guess. Thanks again Doc.

Peter

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#7 Posted : Wednesday, 5 December 2007 7:49:05 PM(UTC)
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Hi Peter.

You've found the fault.

You don't need to buy the original (read expensive) valve, you can use the VN/VS V8 one. They are less than half the price.

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Hi Peter.

Youve found the fault.

You dont need to buy the original (read expensive) valve, you can use the VN/VS V8 one. They are less than half the price.

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#9 Posted : Thursday, 6 December 2007 12:12:35 AM(UTC)
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Fantastic, thanks for that. Peter

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#10 Posted : Thursday, 6 December 2007 12:12:35 AM(UTC)
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Fantastic, thanks for that. Peter

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#11 Posted : Thursday, 6 December 2007 2:19:50 AM(UTC)
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Hi Peter,

I'm with Dr Terry on this one. I had exactly the same problem on my WB and replaced it with the VN-VS V8 one and it works perfect. I tried about 4 second hand valves (as I wanted to keep it looking original) and all of them leaked as the inte
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Hi Peter,

Im with Dr Terry on this one. I had exactly the same problem on my WB and replaced it with the VN-VS V8 one and it works perfect. I tried about 4 second hand valves (as I wanted to keep it looking original) and all of them leaked as the inter
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