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Subject:No Heater/No Wipers!
From:Jay L Snyder
Date:Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:43:09 -0500

I went out this morning and fired up the '85 Westy to run it to work.  (I
don't normally use it for daily transportation, but I wanted to use it
tomorrow and it hadn't been run in a while.)  Started right up.  No heater
fan on any speed.  It sometimes will not start on 1 or even 2, but always
kicks over on 3.  Not today.  It is cold, maybe 30F, windshield is frosted.
Hmm.  I try the wipers/washers, nothing either.   Back heater comes on OK.
Dash lights work.  Can't drive it with out a heater or wipers.  I realize
the heater motor is going or gone, but I don't drive it cold weather very
much.  It always started on 3 and then will run on 1 or 2.   Could it just
have blown a fuse?  If the wipers had worked, I might have driven it
anyway.  The heater might work once everything warmed up under there, but I
wasn't going anywhere without wipers.  Same circuit?  My Bentley is at
home.

                                                                  Jay

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