need a heater control valve with my 350 (1 Viewer)

[BrianSanDiego]

Hello all,

With it warming up and having put my roof on I want to be able to shut off the heater. What have you V8 guys done for a heater control valve?

Put a generic brass valve in the heater hose inside the cab? Find something from the junk yard.... ????

Thanks, B.

 

[Bret]

I would plumb in a 1/4 turn Stainless/teflon ball valve.

 

[shelfboy1]

use the stock one from a later model fj40 and you can control it inside the cab good luck

 

[lone gunman]

i just put ball valves in line. i got them from home depot or lowes and just turn them off for summer. one is in the water pump and one is in the manifold and if a heater hose starts to leak you have a way to shut it off too.

 

[BrianSanDiego]

Cool, thanks guys.
B.

 

[Shawn Russell]

I did the Home Depot version for a while. It hurts to turn it on or off if your engine has been running for awhile I replaced with a cable controlled valve from Napa. Valve was like $10 or so. Used another FJ40 "V"ent cable to control it. Much better solution.

Shawn

 

[Shawn Russell]

I did the Home Depot version for a while. It hurts to turn it on or off if your engine has been running for awhile I replaced with a cable controlled valve from Napa. Valve was like $10 or so. Used another FJ40 "V"ent cable to control it. Much better solution.

Shawn

 

[crushr]

Several Mud folks (including me) use something similar to this:

eBay Motors: Ford Bronco Pickup Econoline Van New Heater Valve (item 190270743579 end time Apr-29-09 19:03:29 PDT)

 

[BrianSanDiego]

Cool guys, thanks.
That looks like the solution crushr, appreciate it.
B.

 

[BrianSanDiego]

Several Mud folks (including me) use something similar to this:

eBay Motors: Ford Bronco Pickup Econoline Van New Heater Valve (item 190270743579 end time Apr-29-09 19:03:29 PDT)

Hey crushr,
I went ahead and ordered that valve from ebay, after looking at few parts stores locally. Seems they've all gone to plastic

So how did you guys attach the cable to the pin on the valve lever? I could rig it, but there must be a clean way to do it.
Thanks again, B.

 

[BrianSanDiego]

heater valve fits and works perfectly

Thanks for the help mud-bros!

 

[dargreg]

Man some things just slip your mind I should have done that when the 6.2 went in.

 

[bikersmurf]

I just priced an OEM one $160 if they can get one.

This one will work better and for way less.

 

[Josie'sLandCruiser]

Hi All:

US$75 plus shipping from CruiserDan at American Toyota in New Mexico for a NOS Toyota factory heater control valve for a '74 FJ40.

Regards,

Alan

I just priced an OEM one $160 if they can get one.

This one will work better and for way less.

 

[bikersmurf]

wow. That's unreal.

With a 350 the oem one isn't ideal. The Ford one would actually clean up the plumbing.