Try bypassing the blower switch and shorting the 2 blower wires together.
Take your GPS with
you next for a speedometer reading. Works great.
MARK
----- Original Message -----
From: <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>
To: "Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 4:45 PM
Subject: [Healeys] Heaters
>I had been warned. We had a local club drive today. The temperature at
> departure was -3 C and went up to 9 above. I had to leave at 9 to get to
> the
> rendezvous point. At about 8 am I turned on the heat tap and attempted to
> turn the fan on. I neither heard a fan running nor did I feel a breeze.
> I
> did find a green wire with electrical tape taped over it's end though. I
> see
> now that according to a schematic, the heater "motor" has a green wire
> going
> to it.
>
>
>
> My wife was with me and we drove with side curtains and no hood. It was
> an
> hour drive at highway speeds to the rendezvous point; after which the
> speed
> went down and the temperatures gradually warmed up. I had a great time
> and my
> wife was a great sport.
>
>
>
> I'm going to have to dig out that safety inspection and see if the heater
> fan
> is a requirement. I thought it was.
>
>
>
> I also learned that that chart in the manuals that gives speed to rpm in
> the
> various gears doesn't match to my car. I figured that I was doing almost
> 70mph, while I was really doing slightly less than 60mph, according to a
> club
> member who followed me for a bit in his nondescript car.
>
>
>
> RD
>
> 55 BN1
>
>
>
>
>
> You would do well to try the heater some time before the meet, if you
> haven't
> run it yet.
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