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Gary from Muleshoe

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On my Ranger there is a valve on the heater hoses that is leaking. It has 4 connections and a vacuum line attached. The current one has only been on for about 6 weeks and I discovered it was leaking this morning. My question, what does it do? Can I remove it and connect the hoses together and plug the vacuum line without causing a problem? I just recently purchased this Ranger to commute to work and the one that was on it then was leaking so I bought a new one.
 
I just changed the one on my 95 Exploder, the valve is what adjusts the temperature on your heater. You can by pass it and you will have full heat all the time, or you can run the two hoses from the motor together and have no heat, or you can spend twenty dollars at O'reillys and fix it..
 
Gary,

I have a 1997 Ranger, 4 cylinder, 5 speed transmission. I have 280,000 miles on it. I replaced the clutch at about 200,000 and that's the only significant maintenance I've had to do on it (little stuff too, an alternator, spark plugs, breaks once, etc.

My heater control went bad a couple of years ago. It started leaking. I replaced it with a new one from Advance Auto and haven't had any trouble with it since. It's cheap looking plastic and I thought that I'd have more trouble with it when I replaced it, but so far it's good.

I'd go get another one and replace the bad one if I were you.

Tom in TN
 
I replaced mine on my 97 Ranger a couple of years ago and it's working great. Make you that are careful when installing the new one they are not the strongest thing on the market.
Walt
 
That valve cuts off and bypasses coolant flow to the heater core when the AC is in use. You wont notice in the winter time, but come this summer the AC wont put out near as cold.
 
Well it has has stopped leaking for now. Not sure why it started, I unplugged the vacuum hose and left it off while ran some errands, put it back on and all seems to be good for now. I am watching it to see if it starts again. Thanks all the advice.
 
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