Ford Explorer: Latest info on blend door on 97 Explorer

The price you were quoted is pretty good (about what I paid for the same
job) and much less than some others have reported. It is a pretty big
job and since the box is on the passenger side of the firewall, it is
hard to see how it could be done from under the hood. One poster was
looking at cutting a hole in the heater box and working from underneath,
but I never heard how that came out. Good luck!

=Vic=
Bear Gap, PA

David Earle wrote: 

I had mine done in February in NYC. Independent repair shop. I paid
about the same. The part was $123.00 I saw the new and the old part.
The blend door has been redesigned and is much beefier as are the
plastic gears that break and cause the problem. These gears are at
the bottom of the door. You can see them by dropping the glove box..
If you see only one or two of the gear sprockets broken you might be
able to jerry rig something that will allow the door to swing open and
closed. A wad of electrical tape worked on mine. It allowed me to get
heat for a few days while the shop got the part. There is a problem
though. The broken gear pieces might fall into the blend door motor
and burn it out. Your looking at another $300-$400 to replace that.
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:16:22 GMT, Vic Klein <net> wrote: