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So, I was driving the other day and was told that the airflow out of my second row vents was very weak. I checked the far back and it was strong, as well as the front. However, the second row was indeed very week. My kids usually sit in the middle row and say it's hot when the air is on full blast. Any ideas what I should check? Thank everyone!!
I've closed them and the flow to the mid is no better. How hard is it to pull the headliner i wonder.
You have to remove everything attached, plus the seat belts. Special size Torx bit required.
CAUTION:
If the safety belt retractor is to be reused, do not allow the safety belt to be retracted all the way into the retractor. Doing so may cause the retractor to lock and not release the safety belt.
Use protective tape on the edge of the headliner that comes in contact with the door opening or the headliner material can tear.
Final step before removal: Tilt the headliner toward the driver side of the vehicle and disconnect the rear air conditioning duct.
You have to remove everything attached, plus the seat belts. Special size Torx bit required.
CAUTION:
If the safety belt retractor is to be reused, do not allow the safety belt to be retracted all the way into the retractor. Doing so may cause the retractor to lock and not release the safety belt.
Use protective tape on the edge of the headliner that comes in contact with the door opening or the headliner material can tear.
Final step before removal: Tilt the headliner toward the driver side of the vehicle and disconnect the rear air conditioning duct.
WOW! Idk if I'm gonna try that. Maybe just see if i can get up under it to see if the venting is loose or something.
Find my posts somewhere here in the abyss. There a few causes for the airflow issue. One is the foam seal on the diverter door, (floor or ceiling), and or the circumferential foam gasket at the top of the duct tube going up the right side feeding the roof spider.
The headliner, a real PITA, but doable. I posted pics of the diverter door and the unglued foam that blocks not only the air path, but the movement of the door. When I took the headliner down after stripping the rest of the interior to clean, I decided to seal the spider duct tunnel as it had come unglued and was leaking. FYI on the belt re-tractors, if they wind up al the was, you just make sure to pull them out very slow, and in the same vertical position as when installed in the vehicle, they should be fine.
When I pulled the headliner in the diesel to have it re-done in the blue, I didn't take out nearly as much interior parts like the V-10. The V-10 was a full strip and clean. The front seat backs were popped off their recline pin if I remember, and the headliner was tilted down to the right and slid out on an angle.
The rear blower box does not need to be fully removed from the vehicle, but the rearmost pillar trim, large quarter trim panel, rear door sill trim, and seatbelt pillar trims have to come off. The blower box front half can be separated away from the other half mounted to the vehicle body.
