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Ive only had my surf Ln130 for 1 week and have been fixing a few things, one of them the misty front windscreen so..............
ive read on here alot about the misting windscreen, and all the threads ive read lead to the fact that 99.9% of the time its the white plastic controls/leavers on the side of the heater box (near where your left foot rests while driving) that 'jam' and dont go all the way to the windscreen position/setting.
most people are saying greasing the white plastic sliders fixes it for them, (lucky s*ds) i noticed mine to would go with a push of the finger, BUT after then i checked it all by using the swithes to move the controls while i watched, it stopped short of the 'demist' setting on the white leavers every time, SO..
Follow the wire cable at the top of the white plastic leavers that moves them.... this goes upwards then back down to behind the little plastic panel at the bottome of the center console right infront of the gear 4X4 levers, take this off, 1 screw either side, and then pull it, behind there is the control motor that operates the cable when the switches/buttons are pushed.......... heres the problem, the cable will have kinked and can either be repaired with a splint(as some one has said in a thread), or replace the cable with one from a scrappy, if that ones ok, or! do what i did.......
went to the scrappy, no surfs
, so i think what about all those pajeros and other jap motors sitting over there, first pajero had similar cables
, so i took 2, one that looked looked a close match and then one that was too long.
tried the similair one and it was too short but by only 1/4 inche at most but wouldn't allow the full range of movement on the white plastic controls..... so use the longer one, with sharp good side cutters/pliers cut one end of the new cable off, discard the end 'ring' bit. remove the inner cable.
now hold the outer part against your original broken one from the truck, and cut new outer the same lenght of the original, put to one side, now do the same again but for the inner part, cut to same as orginal inner.
now slide new inner back into its outer.
DONT FORGET THIS BIT
now get a small crimp on ring terminal (similiar to the blue bullet connectors for stereos) make sure the hole in the ring terminal is the same size as the orginal end, or close as you can, now crimp that ring terminal on the end of the new inner.
you now have a perfect replacement cable linkage, it might sound like a lot, but took me less than 2 minutes to make the new cable.
and i now have a heater that blows where i tell it to when i tell it to
i needed
a few screwdrivers
long needle nose pliers
a pair of good quality side cutters
a ring terminal
good quality ratchet wire crimp,... cheaper ones would do but make sure it wont pull off!!
a bright torch
a nice big mug of tea!
hope this helps someone out considering the time of year.
ive read on here alot about the misting windscreen, and all the threads ive read lead to the fact that 99.9% of the time its the white plastic controls/leavers on the side of the heater box (near where your left foot rests while driving) that 'jam' and dont go all the way to the windscreen position/setting.
most people are saying greasing the white plastic sliders fixes it for them, (lucky s*ds) i noticed mine to would go with a push of the finger, BUT after then i checked it all by using the swithes to move the controls while i watched, it stopped short of the 'demist' setting on the white leavers every time, SO..
Follow the wire cable at the top of the white plastic leavers that moves them.... this goes upwards then back down to behind the little plastic panel at the bottome of the center console right infront of the gear 4X4 levers, take this off, 1 screw either side, and then pull it, behind there is the control motor that operates the cable when the switches/buttons are pushed.......... heres the problem, the cable will have kinked and can either be repaired with a splint(as some one has said in a thread), or replace the cable with one from a scrappy, if that ones ok, or! do what i did.......
went to the scrappy, no surfs
, so i think what about all those pajeros and other jap motors sitting over there, first pajero had similar cables, so i took 2, one that looked looked a close match and then one that was too long.tried the similair one and it was too short but by only 1/4 inche at most but wouldn't allow the full range of movement on the white plastic controls..... so use the longer one, with sharp good side cutters/pliers cut one end of the new cable off, discard the end 'ring' bit. remove the inner cable.
now hold the outer part against your original broken one from the truck, and cut new outer the same lenght of the original, put to one side, now do the same again but for the inner part, cut to same as orginal inner.
now slide new inner back into its outer.
DONT FORGET THIS BITnow get a small crimp on ring terminal (similiar to the blue bullet connectors for stereos) make sure the hole in the ring terminal is the same size as the orginal end, or close as you can, now crimp that ring terminal on the end of the new inner.
you now have a perfect replacement cable linkage, it might sound like a lot, but took me less than 2 minutes to make the new cable.
and i now have a heater that blows where i tell it to when i tell it to
i needed
a few screwdrivers
long needle nose pliers
a pair of good quality side cutters
a ring terminal
good quality ratchet wire crimp,... cheaper ones would do but make sure it wont pull off!!
a bright torch
a nice big mug of tea!
hope this helps someone out considering the time of year.
its easy realy
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