74c5
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Original owner of 2000 Exp. Had an odd problem on a recent trip into Idaho & Montana. There was a lot of cold air leakage into RF foot well area. In general, it was coming from the far upper-right area where the fender/frame meets the firewall. Heater was running, valve knob around 85%, when wife noticed cold air "blowing" too near the warm air. It was near zero outside, but I think we would have noticed this before. Stuffed a blanket up there and damped the flow a little. It didn't seem to change too much on the return trip with a strong headwind.
I've pulled the wheel well liner, the foam strip in front of the door hinge and some of the interior plastic. Sealed one tiny hole in the foam liner retainer that might not have been a real hole. Nothing else obvious and fairly clean for 17 years old. Hood side firewall shows everything looking good including some of the connector gaskets.
Is there a solenoid flapper somewhere in this area that might have failed open? While typing this, I think I'll go check all the door and hatch&window gaskets to make sure we are somehow, unnaturally, pulling cold in through a nominal area that only shows up at 80+mph and very cold temps.
I've pulled the wheel well liner, the foam strip in front of the door hinge and some of the interior plastic. Sealed one tiny hole in the foam liner retainer that might not have been a real hole. Nothing else obvious and fairly clean for 17 years old. Hood side firewall shows everything looking good including some of the connector gaskets.
Is there a solenoid flapper somewhere in this area that might have failed open? While typing this, I think I'll go check all the door and hatch&window gaskets to make sure we are somehow, unnaturally, pulling cold in through a nominal area that only shows up at 80+mph and very cold temps.
