I had the ignition off when replacing but both sides were set to the same temp at 70°. I didn’t mess with any modes, just swapped it, then checked that it worked by cranking one side to 80° (hot) and the other to 65° (cold) and vise versa.
If you can’t tell where to line it up, find the middle of the two extremes, center it, and installing that way should work.
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I’m going to take a step back and explain what’s going on again. Something is just not right.
We have the actuator, which we consider bad, and have purchased a new one.
The actuator has a male gear sticking out, has an electrical plug that plugs into the car, so the car can control the rotation/position of the male gear when the AC buttons are pressed on the dash. When the buttons are pressed, the male gear rotates, and will turn the mated female gear, which in turn opens and closes doors.
We also know that the male and female gears are keyed so they only fit together one way.
We also know that the new actuator comes with the male gear pre-rotated in a default baseline position and even has a printed arrow indicating this position and the missing tooth/key identified by the arrow.
So of all of the above is true, the actuator has to be mated to the female gear and plugged into the car for the female gear to rotate.
I also noticed that the male gear cannot be freely rotated by hand.
I also noticed that the female gear, which is incredibly hard to get to or even see it’s position without getting a phone camera up under the dash to see it’s position.
So I’ll reiterate the question I stated before. How am I suppose to align the male and/or female gears to mate?
If the male gear is already in the default 5-o’clock position and I cannot move it by hand, and the female gear is in some other position, and I cannot use the ac controls to control its position .....because it needs the actuator plugged in to turn it....which I can’t do....how am I suppose to get them to line up?
Am I suppose to somehow turn the male gear by hand ?
Does the female gear actually turn when the ac controls are pressed? If so what’s the point of the actuator - that’s it’s job.
Am I suppose to turn the female gear by hand somehow ....
Hope this all makes sense
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