Shutting off the heat

[Ernie Ekberg]

If you turn your engine off and turn the key to the on position, go to back of coach and see if those 2 little pumps on the street side of coach, which control the coolant flow are spinning. your switch may be bad and stuck on. the other alternative is to close those 4 valves which ddirect coolant to your chassis heaters and have no bearing on your coolant flow to radiator Ernie Ekberg 83PT40 Wanderlodge Weatherford, Tx http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/erni...gandrepair --- On Fri, 5/29/09, jburgessx2 wrote: From: jburgessx2 Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Shutting off the heat To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 12:48 AM Wayne, I have it set to summer but it still seems to poor the heat out. We are on I-5 heading back to Port Hueneme and it was a hot one today. My wife set a thermometer by her feet to check the temp - 105 degrees at the co-pilots seat feet!!! My feet were at 87 degrees. I had the generator running with two of the AC's going trying to cool it down. My dash AC doesn't work and I haven't fixed it yet. I was hoping there was some way to turn the heat off at the engine. I don't think the heat of the generator and the heat of the road could produce 105 degrees in the passengers seat but I could be wrong. Oh well, we will be home by noon tomorrow and I guess I can look into it further. Maybe I have a stuck valve somewhere that isn't allowing the winter/summer switch to work properly. Jerry 85 PT40 --- In WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com, Wayne Kotila wrote: > > There is a summer/winter rocker switch on the left side of the overhead dash area, if it is set to summer the chassis heat system will be off. > Wayne > 1985 PT40 > > > > > ____________ _________ _________ __ > From: "amweatherly@ ..." > To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:38:27 PM > Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Shutting off the heat > > > > > > --- In WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com, "jburgessx2" wrote: > > > > So, how do I shut the heat off in this 85 PT40? I've turned off all know switches on dash and panels above. But, we are still getting heat out of the vents. I'm guessing it's coming from the chassis heating system since all the others are off. Surely their must be a valve to shut off somewhere. . . > > > > When it's 100 degrees outside I would rather not have any heat on. . . > > > > Jerry > > 85 PT40 > > > > Jerry, > > There are four valves in the engine compartment. Two of which control the pilot/copilot heat, the other two supply coolant to all the other > chassis heaters. My bluebook says three are located on the rear of the engine and one is on the left bank, about 1/2 way up the side > of the engine. Never could find that one. I located the 4th one also in the rear of the engine. Two are visible, two are down in front of the rear bumper, practicly invisible. If all you want is to shut of heat, Ralph's post is a damn sight easier > > Art Weatherly > Riverside Ca. > '85 PT 36 >