07 Expy Driver's Blend Door Actuator
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07 Expy Driver's Blend Door Actuator
No heat on the drivers side (dual zone AC), I can hear the actuator engage, and one or two very faint clicks, but I am pretty sure that my actuator needs to be changed. I know there are several actuators on this model, can someone verify the part number for the driver's side actuator? I don't have my shop manual yet, and I noticed a few people ordered the wrong one on Amazon.
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I swapped this out over the weekend. Alldata says this is a 5.9 hour job because the actuator is buried below the radio in front of the center console and you are supposed to remove the dash. Prices I saw were around $700 for this job at the stealership.
There is a video though of how to do it a little differently on an F150.
For my 2007 Expy, it was pretty similar although the wiring was a little different. Doing it by myself took me about 3 hours. Unlike the video however, I was not able to it out through the passenger's side above the floor duct. Instead I had to slide it out the front where the center console would normally be. It took some fighting to get the old one out and the new one back in, but I am proud to say that I did not have to cut any of the floor duct.
Once I got the actuator out I was surprised to see that there were no teeth broken off. With it still plugged in I tried increasing/decreasing the temp to see if the motor turned and it did not. For a brief moment I panicked thinking maybe I missed a fuse or connection and that I had done all of this for nothing. Plugged in the replacement actuator though, and it moved right away, so it wasn't a fuse - the old actuator had just stopped working altogether.
If anyone has this issue and needs more details on how to do this, just ask. The symptoms are no temp control on the driver's side (dual ATC) - you could have just cold air, just heat, or somewhere in the middle depending on where the door is when the actuator stops working. Or if you have broken teeth you will probably hear a lot of clicking when trying to adjust the temp up and down.
There is a video though of how to do it a little differently on an F150.
For my 2007 Expy, it was pretty similar although the wiring was a little different. Doing it by myself took me about 3 hours. Unlike the video however, I was not able to it out through the passenger's side above the floor duct. Instead I had to slide it out the front where the center console would normally be. It took some fighting to get the old one out and the new one back in, but I am proud to say that I did not have to cut any of the floor duct.
Once I got the actuator out I was surprised to see that there were no teeth broken off. With it still plugged in I tried increasing/decreasing the temp to see if the motor turned and it did not. For a brief moment I panicked thinking maybe I missed a fuse or connection and that I had done all of this for nothing. Plugged in the replacement actuator though, and it moved right away, so it wasn't a fuse - the old actuator had just stopped working altogether.
If anyone has this issue and needs more details on how to do this, just ask. The symptoms are no temp control on the driver's side (dual ATC) - you could have just cold air, just heat, or somewhere in the middle depending on where the door is when the actuator stops working. Or if you have broken teeth you will probably hear a lot of clicking when trying to adjust the temp up and down.
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03-13-2017, 11:52 AM
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11-29-2019, 07:18 PM
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I swapped this out over the weekend. Alldata says this is a 5.9 hour job because the actuator is buried below the radio in front of the center console and you are supposed to remove the dash. Prices I saw were around $700 for this job at the stealership.
There is a video though of how to do it a little differently on an F150.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5xvlbiaxF4
For my 2007 Expy, it was pretty similar although the wiring was a little different. Doing it by myself took me about 3 hours. Unlike the video however, I was not able to it out through the passenger's side above the floor duct. Instead I had to slide it out the front where the center console would normally be. It took some fighting to get the old one out and the new one back in, but I am proud to say that I did not have to cut any of the floor duct.
Once I got the actuator out I was surprised to see that there were no teeth broken off. With it still plugged in I tried increasing/decreasing the temp to see if the motor turned and it did not. For a brief moment I panicked thinking maybe I missed a fuse or connection and that I had done all of this for nothing. Plugged in the replacement actuator though, and it moved right away, so it wasn't a fuse - the old actuator had just stopped working altogether.
If anyone has this issue and needs more details on how to do this, just ask. The symptoms are no temp control on the driver's side (dual ATC) - you could have just cold air, just heat, or somewhere in the middle depending on where the door is when the actuator stops working. Or if you have broken teeth you will probably hear a lot of clicking when trying to adjust the temp up and down.
There is a video though of how to do it a little differently on an F150.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5xvlbiaxF4
For my 2007 Expy, it was pretty similar although the wiring was a little different. Doing it by myself took me about 3 hours. Unlike the video however, I was not able to it out through the passenger's side above the floor duct. Instead I had to slide it out the front where the center console would normally be. It took some fighting to get the old one out and the new one back in, but I am proud to say that I did not have to cut any of the floor duct.
Once I got the actuator out I was surprised to see that there were no teeth broken off. With it still plugged in I tried increasing/decreasing the temp to see if the motor turned and it did not. For a brief moment I panicked thinking maybe I missed a fuse or connection and that I had done all of this for nothing. Plugged in the replacement actuator though, and it moved right away, so it wasn't a fuse - the old actuator had just stopped working altogether.
If anyone has this issue and needs more details on how to do this, just ask. The symptoms are no temp control on the driver's side (dual ATC) - you could have just cold air, just heat, or somewhere in the middle depending on where the door is when the actuator stops working. Or if you have broken teeth you will probably hear a lot of clicking when trying to adjust the temp up and down.
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