2001 Silverado Blend Door Actuator Repair

The mode actuator is on passenger side.

2001 silverado blend door actuator repair. Check out the diagrams below. Blend door actuator replacement. If the plastic gear breaks this might affect the blend door. An actuator can go bad in of two ways.

A blend door actuator is made up of an electric motor that turns a plastic gear set in one direction or another which is connected to an air control door pivot at the final drive of the unit. I have a 2001 chevy tahoe where the defrost selector in the dash doesn t work it only blows how air out the front vents. Move the seat back as far as you can helps to get in there. In this video i locate and replac.

Those are some of the heater blend door actuator symptoms you need to watch out for. Remove the mode actuator mounting screws from the hvac module. Nov 01 2014 1 28am. As mentioned earlier a blend door actuator is linked to the air control door it rotates side by side with the electronic motor.

The mode door actuator is on the left and the resirc door actuator is at the top of the dash near the windshield. First the electric motor can burn out rendering the unit non responsive so nothing changes when the temperature or. I have now gotten heat broiling glorious blistering lava. But try pulling fuse first for hvac sometimes it resets the actuators.

Remove the mode actuator as an assembly with the actuator cam. The blend door actuator is located in the center of the core box up under the dash. Causes of a bad blend door actuator.