Vents won't blow hot or cold air. Comes from defrost and feet when you put fan on
I can't get the fan to blow heat or ac from vents. Blows through defrost and feet instead. Can feel air from vents, but won't blow air. How can I fix this?
Cars & Trucks - GMC - Safari - 1997 GMC Safari
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It's the vent actuator, it moves the baffle that changes the direction of the air flow.
Here is a video of a broken vacuum hose that creates the same problem.
It could also be a failed actuator.
I have found that hard plastic vacuum line, but it is broken way in the back of the engine compartment. I can barely fit my hand in there to touch it, and cannot find where it goes to, or what the line is called to order a new one.
Standard vacuum line can be purchased at any auto parts store, as long as you have a piece of the old stuff they will be able to match it up. It will be more flexible than what you have, but it will work.
You will need to get vacuum connectors there too, get brass connectors as you'll be able to put more force on them. The old plastic is so hard that it may be next to impossible to push them inside it or the old line will just break some more. I wish I knew a good way around that problem, but I don't. Sometimes you can force the new flexible line directly over the old one without a connector.
Unfortunately, I don't know your specific van, so I don't know exactly where the connections are.
The simple things to help you get at the back of the engine are a step stool or short ladder and a piece of wood or 2, more than 1/4 inch thick that you can put from front to back over the engine. On the body below the wipers across to in front of the radiator. (use this to support yourself as you lean over the engine. Just don't put it where it will fall down and damage your radiator.)
Check switches and blower may be blocked.
the blower should be located under the dash area on passager side. if there is lent or anything wrapped around the blower it will not fully produce the air flow if that does not work u may have a vaccum line loose or broken.
Danny, I realize you're trying to help, but if you don't know the answer, you're not helping.
She said the vents blow, just the wrong ones.