96 Cobra not blowing air through vents

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cobrachris96

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My 96 Cobra is not blowing any air through the vents. It only blows air through the defrost and floor vents but not the main vents. I looked under the hood and noticed this red broken cable/hose. What is this? A vacuum hose? I'm not much of a mechanic but if its something fairly easy to fix, I don't mind getting under the hood. Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks

 

pedro

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Yup, your problem is probably because of that broken vacuum line. Just replace it or try to plug it in. This happened to me a couple years ago, and my A/C fan was working like you're saying.

 

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The vents are controlled by vacuum. When the vacuum fails the vents default to blow defrost for safety reasons.

 

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OK, I went out to the garage and started the car. I then held the two ends of the vacuum line together and I heard a click. After that, air started blowing through the vents. Can I just connect the pieces together with electrical tape or does it need to be an air tight connection?

 

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Needs to be an airtight connection. You might use a piece of very small diameter rubber tubing to connect them. Or, you might use a shrinkwrap tube. You might also find a specialty vacuum type connector at an auto parts - I think I've seen those before at Vatozone or Advance Auto.

Make sure you do it right and make it permanent.

Good luck....

 

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I went to Autozone and they gave me a small piece of rubber tubing. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of the vaccum line sticking out on the right side to slide the tubing over it.

I had the car in the shop at the dealership last week to get a new power steering pump installed. I'm not sure if they broke it or not but I may take it by there next week and see if they'll do something about it.