{"id":1339,"date":"2017-08-02T15:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2017-08-02T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:58:58","slug":"new-old-stock-heater-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"New Old Stock heater valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saab-060.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-1339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saab-060-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saab-060-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saab-060.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder why the heater control in almost every SAAB 99 is broken? First, the control in the dash is entirely plastic including a tiny post that is expected to push and pull on a Bowden cable to open and close the valve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_6592.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-1339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_6592-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_6592-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_6592-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_6592-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_6592.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the car was apart I worked on the controls and original valve. I cleaned up the Bowden cable and worked graphite into it.  While it operates smoothly, the valve seal had degraded so it is impossible to turn off the heater completely.  Wish I had found this part when I had everything torn apart, but maybe at the next coolant flush I&#8217;ll replace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the heater control in almost every SAAB 99 is broken? First, the control in the dash is entirely plastic including a tiny post that is expected to push and pull on a Bowden cable to open and close the valve. When the car was apart I worked on the controls and original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133,153,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}