For those who want to know what each vacuum motor/actuator does. 1. The one in the passenger footwell controls the door between fresh air and interior recirculated air. The default with no vacuum leaves the exterior door open. 2. The one he disconnected the arm for controls the first door from the blower motor. The door it controls is to divert the air to the main vents with a slight bypass to the defrost vents. Its default with no vacuum is to close the main vents and push air to the defrost vents. 3. The vacuum motor with two lines going to it, next to the one he was talking about in the video, controls the difference between defrost, floor, and then mixed vents. It has two lines to allow different amounts of vacuum to be applied. It defaults to defrost vents when it does not allow vacuum. Therefore if there is a vacuum leak in the HVAC control system it defaults to 1. exterior air 2. main vent door closed 3. defrost/floor door closed pushing all flow to the defrost vents. Causing full function to defrost vents with exterior air pushed across the heater core.

@simplyeasydiy

Ай бұрын

This is so incredibly helpful. Thank you.

@lsrod9689

16 күн бұрын

Makes a lot of sense

Great video, this just saved my parents almost 1,000 dollars. Ford dealership claims the entire dashboard has to be removed for fix.

The vacuum lines are made of plastic and eventually crack and break. I replaced all of my vacuum lines with rubber lines that I got on Amazon and that fixed the problem. It takes time but is not that difficult, just find the old plastic lines and follow them back to all points of connection and remove them and replace with new rubber tubing. It worked, I now have all vents blowing air.

@nacisahin7791

3 ай бұрын

Hi. I have same issues with my 2008 e250 van. Do you have videos and more informations ? Thx

Nice post. I'm going to try this in the morning. You are right, 90% of the time you want air out the front vents, but the 10% when you need that defroster will save your life. I had to drive without a defroster one night because my blower motor failed. Very dangerous! Fortunately I had some hand sanitizer which contains alcohol. Rubbed it on the inside of the windshield. Prevented fogging and moisture freezing. Made it home safely!

6 weeks. I’ve been driving around for 6 weeks. It’s been over a hundred degrees in Dallas the whole damn time. So easy. So simple. Six weeks.

@jeffadams6737

11 ай бұрын

So glad I could help!!!!

@davidhouser

11 ай бұрын

No work? 😢

@josephbertolucci7408

Ай бұрын

Mine is an 09 it does not have the plate on the dash??

@josephbertolucci7408

Ай бұрын

Where is that switch in mine

Thanks for posting. The fix is the actuator is disconnected from the vent actuator arm 3:35 the actuator itself is most likely fine

Mine is a 2005 ,I looked at several videos and for the shape of my van and the fact that my a/c still blows cold. Yours is the best fix . Screw all that vacuum searching, the manual fix is the best.

Thank you! 95 E350 started having the same exact problem last night. I’m going back to AZ tomorrow from Colorado with the kids and there’s NO WAY defrost was going to cool us off 🥵. This is exactly what we need until I can replace that part that’s supposed to move the plastic lever 😎🙏

That worked for me. Thank you so much we are having a record high heat wave I Houston. I hope you are blessed with good fortune.

You’re awesome. Just fixed my issue with that trick. So cool. Thanks!

Thanks for posting this! My normal commuter car died so I was using my cargo van that had this problem forever but it was never a huge issue because mine did a split between the defrost and the floor vent so on long trips it wasn't too bad which was mostly what I was using it for. But now it's a heat wave and I'm using it to drive to and from work and was getting home in the hottest part of the day soaked in sweat. I couldn't get the vacuum actuator tab off the switch so I just unscrewed it and pushed the entire actuator as far towards the windshield and drivers side as I could and it works great now. I can do the semi-proper check switch and accumulator relocation fix when it's cooler outside!

You're awesome my guy! Saved me a lot of money so thank you!

Thank you so much you just solved all my problems.

Worked, Thank you 97 E-150 tada

I bought a new vacuum canister and pulled the vacuum line out from the inside of the firewall. The check valve and t fitting came out too it looked like the leak was a dry rotted tube that went to the canister… it crumbled. So I just ran a wire through the firewall toward the engine until I could see it and then pulled the new vacuum line through.

Thanks so much this saved me time and money

Today you are my hero

Thank you so much for your video I've had the same problem in a 350 Ford van and it worked like a charm.

@jeffadams6737

Ай бұрын

Glad it helped

So freaking easy!! 🤣 Thanks for the easy hack man!

It worked for me 😊 thank you thank you!!

Thanks for the video!

Please note: What I pointed out in this video is more of a “bypass” than a true fix in order to avoid an expensive and time consuming tear down. What I am proposing gets the job done with no cost. The actuator that I point out in the video that I was going to replace actually worked fine upon bench testing so the vacuum problem is more complicated and would require a tear down of the system to find the leak. Hope my solution helps.

@hectorespinoza7641

Жыл бұрын

So the actuator wasn’t the problem?

@hectorespinoza7641

Жыл бұрын

Sam thing happened to mine I checked it rn and when I pinched the actuator it blew air to the vent I’m looking to replace the actuator you pointed out but if that isn’t the part then might as well not replace it

@davidhouser

11 ай бұрын

No working- help me

4:00 This was bad design by Ford. If, instead of the whole vacuum line and reservoir B.S., they let the user control the flapper by a MANUAL SWITCH, this thing would never break. But nooo, they HAD to make it complicated! Its an air flow flapper, why make it so convoluted?

Hey very good job and very good explication i have tha seme problems with my van tha air pot's to coming from outside its hot ....pot's coming cool air

Nice video. I am working on it.

Thanks 👌👌👌 Very much appreciated 🙏 🙏🙏🙏

So easy. Thanks.

Holy shit I love you

This would fix mine - if I push the arm over it does switch it - but how did you get the metal arm off with the circular plastic in the way?

Yep, that’s why I was glad to find this hack. Engineers will have you taking dash out to fix which is aweful!!!

The ball is bad on top of condenser run a new line from under the hood to the black line under the floor and it will fix it and it will work with the control

OMG! Thank you!!!

Awesome. I didnt realize there was an access panel there

Gracias por tu video fue de mucha ayuda thank you appreciate

I've been running this 'bypass' fix on my van for around 3 years. one thing to note the air intake under the passenger footwell defaults to fresh air intake. so when motor is under load and ac on max ac and the vacuum decreases the fresh air intake door will open. this does become slightly annoying as my area has a lot of diesel trucks so the fumes get sucked into the cab.

@gibsonlp1866

Жыл бұрын

Could you finger the fresh air intake thing like the way you did the top one??? 🤦🤦🤦 To keep outside and exhaust air out..thanks for the video 🙋🏻🙋🏻🙋🏻

@davidhouser

11 ай бұрын

No work 😅 ??

2008 e350 same problem try this tomorrow. Thanks

Thank you!!

How do you reattach the lever? It does not go on easily.

On my Ford e 250 2000. I don't have the plastic piece to move. However when I push it in the air comes out.

this is one of those things where you can get in worse then when you started i m thinking / have air for now . but will hurt resale when i tell them just open the door and flip the broken little white arm. 2006 E250 52000 miles on it.

@jeffadams6737

13 күн бұрын

I wouldn’t worry about resale. Changing that part out was $2500 labor alone. My van has 200K on it. Not worth the repair bill. You have less miles obviously but it depends on what your end goal is.

thanks for showing this i found my issue but you didnt show how to take the lever off the white part can you show how you did that

@airquad1929

5 ай бұрын

Pretty sure the Lever was already off and that's the Problem to begin with.I am an everyday Mechanic and I'm having trouble finding the part with the White Lever.We have a few E250s we work in and alot of them have sane problem with the Lever Breaking.

Awesome

Know anything about Rear door locks?? Ty

I have a 95 van and noticed a vaccine line under hood that's off I wonder if that's causing my vent not to come on but thanks I'll check that out

did not say how to disconnect the white plastic arm off the Actuator arm now arm is broken. please make a vid an how to fix the broken arm.

and where to find the part?

Is there a trick to get the lever off?, I don't want to break anything.

@MrMike4833

23 күн бұрын

I seem to have the same problem trying to get that lever off of the actuator, I didn't want to start unscrewing anything unnecessarily but also didn't see anything replying to your answer, do you mind sharing what you ended up doing? I know it only looks like two screws, the one closest to the windshield is on a slight angle so I'm afraid I might drop it

Part 1? What fixed it?

What is the name of the part

👍

no worked- ?? Help me? New check valve, new actuator, new,bypass regulator no dry rotted ,😅 s.c - 2 year bypass - ?????

Just got my truck out the shop. They was trying to charge me 1,400

Did you ever diagnose the problem? And find an easy fix other than what you did here?

@jeffadams6737

Жыл бұрын

It’s the vacuum canister buried deep in the engine compartment. It’s leaking enough that the vacuum switch won’t switch over. The part is about $65 but the labor to fix is horrendous with about 5 hours to disassemble and put back together. Sort of like a heater core.

@jr.6199

Жыл бұрын

​@@jeffadams6737good work, so the next fix-hack is adding in the bypass line, where some videos address that one. My local Ford dealer did a bypass for me 12 years ago and now it is leaking somewhere on my e450. So im back to your hack for the time being, till i test the two actuators. Thanks for your vlog here!

@jeffadams6737

Жыл бұрын

@@jr.6199 The designers made that system way more difficult to repair than it needs to be. That’s engineered so you have to buy new!

@nickreiter6412

Жыл бұрын

​@jeffadams6737 Tools, vehicles performed way better and longer until around 2000's . They knew exactly what they were doing when they started making things to not last as long. Cast iron parts went to plastic, internal engine parts even went to plastic. Why make something that lasts years and years? They would never be able to sale as many. It used to b pride in how long your product (s) would last. Now it's just all about the sales, who cares about morals amd pride anymore?

Tengo ese problema en la ford E 250 ecoline lo kiero ver.en español

Este video lo kiero en español