Dr. Overkill
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So I'm driving home the other night and I crack open the windows a bit as it's pretty muggy but not bad enough to turn on the A/C. As soon as I did so, I felt a blast furnace of hot air cooking my shins.
Closed the windows, and the hot air stops. Crack just the passenger window, hot air starts. Just the driver window, hot air starts.
Hmm. Get home, crawl on the floormat and see that there's a boot of some sort where the steering column enters that looks like it's loose or broken. (The boot being on the other side of the firewall.) Wiggle it and sure enough it's just flopping around.
Every time I'd open a window, it would cause a vacuum and suck freshly cooked air from the engine compartment into the cab. Nice.
I took a peek at it from under the hood, but it was just too freakin hot in there and it was too close to the headers to mess with. I wasn't able to pull it through from under the dashboard.
I looked at it more closely today and realized that the reason I couldn't just pop it back into the hole was because there's a tab on the boot and slot in the bottom of the hole, that have to line up.
Once lined up, it took a little persuasion but I got the boot flange pulled in as best I could. It seems as if it just holds via friction. It it pops out again soon, I may see what I can do with a couple zip ties or safety wire down there, but for now, my shins are much happier :lol:
_dennis
Closed the windows, and the hot air stops. Crack just the passenger window, hot air starts. Just the driver window, hot air starts.
Hmm. Get home, crawl on the floormat and see that there's a boot of some sort where the steering column enters that looks like it's loose or broken. (The boot being on the other side of the firewall.) Wiggle it and sure enough it's just flopping around.
Every time I'd open a window, it would cause a vacuum and suck freshly cooked air from the engine compartment into the cab. Nice.
I took a peek at it from under the hood, but it was just too freakin hot in there and it was too close to the headers to mess with. I wasn't able to pull it through from under the dashboard.
I looked at it more closely today and realized that the reason I couldn't just pop it back into the hole was because there's a tab on the boot and slot in the bottom of the hole, that have to line up.
Once lined up, it took a little persuasion but I got the boot flange pulled in as best I could. It seems as if it just holds via friction. It it pops out again soon, I may see what I can do with a couple zip ties or safety wire down there, but for now, my shins are much happier :lol:
_dennis
