heater 94 t-bird

man it is like 0 degrees out side and my heater only blows cold air i don't know if it would be a sensor; a blendor door; or a heater core. the thermostat is good because the top hose was hot and my gauge went up like normal. and i am tired of driving it and being freezing cold plus i have a daughter i need to keep warm.

A quick test. With the engine at normal operating temperature, temp dial set to hottest and the blower off feel both heater hoses. They should be about the same temp. If one is colder it indicates a blocked heater core.

k thank you for the help but what if they are around the same temp?

You might still be low on coolant. Not low enough to affect the temp sensor, but low enough you are not pushing coolant through the heater core.

If they are they same then it is probably a bad controller.

i have cheched coolant and i have enough

hey muscle is that your car where did u get the hood?

Do you have manual A/C Heater or Automatic Temperature Control and are both of the hoses I asked you about the same temperature or not?

i haven't had a chance to check the hoses but i have automatic climate control i know the top hose gets pretty warm when warmed up

I'm not talking about the radiator hoses which I think you are when you say the top hose is getting hot.

which hoses are u talkking about

i checked the radiater hoses and they are both warm

allright i checked bothe of the heater hoses and the are both the same heat

I don't know if a '95 has a self test or not but try this: Position the blower control knob at AUTO and the Function Selector knob to either PANEL or FLOOR. Then press and release the COOL and OUTSIDE TEMP buttons simultaneously and, within 2 sec, press and release the WARM button. The display should a tracer segment going in a counterclockwise direction during the self test. At the end of the self test trouble codes will be displayed. If there are no faults the whole display will illuminate. To exit the self test press the COOL button. Leave the ignition on at least 30 sec after you exit the self test so that the system can recalibrate itself. Let me know what code numbers show up. Your only problem now is the inside temp of the car MUST be between 50-90 degrees F for the test to work. I hope you have a heated garage or that it warms up soon!

I dont see that happening, on a warm day or a warm garage.

Plug a hair dryer into an extension cord and place in the car for 6 hours on high! :D

As I said: Your only problem now is the inside temp of the car MUST be between 50-90 degrees F for the test to work. I hope you have a heated garage or that it warms up soon!

lol well i have the trim off of the panel and i seen something in another thread about a sensor around the radio? is it down inside that little piece right to the right of the radio and what is it used for;if not what is this that i am talking about

well i haven't really gotten to far with this project but i am getting it done a little at a time

I have a 94 with a 4.6 and it has a Climate Control. Last winter it was doing the same thing as you are experiencing and I did that self-diagnostic check,( the same as 97Bird described), and it re-set everything and since then everything has worked fine.

alright 97 bird i got the codes off of the self test and they are 42 and 43

42= Ambient Temp Sensor is shorted, 43= ATS is open. PM me with your email address and I will send you the tests for this sensor and circuit. I tried to cut and paste them here and into an email to you from this site but couldn't get it to work.

I emailed you the tests. Let me know in here if you receive them.

gosh, you guys know everything about these cars, its awesome... my heater works fine, but now I wanna do a self test too just for fun lol. I never knew about that, I didnt see it in the owners manual lol.

alright i got those tests bird. i still haven't really gotten to them to check it out i will try to get to it saturday but ty hope to tell u what happens soon

where is the sensor?

well if u can tell me where the sensor is i am going to just change it and see what that will do

I think it is on the radiator support. I sent the picture of it so that you could see what it looks like.

thank u bud i will take a look at it

You should be out working on you Bird- not sitting at your 'puter! I see you are online.

when did u send me that pic? i don't think i got it

It's at the bottom of the .doc that I sent you. It's not an actual photograph.

oh ok i got that i printed off. now i just got to try and get some time to get down there and actually look at the thing. i missed the two nice days because i was watching my daughter and then had to go to work after that. one day it was 60 and the other it was high 50s so i missed out

man now we got about a foot of snow so i think i am going to put this project off for even longer lol oh well

Hey 97bird, I did that test, and got 24, what does that mean?

I don't know if you guys are still participating to this site but I have a 94 V8 Bird and I am having the same problem with my heat. Both heater hoses are the same heat; I have taken the heater hoses loose from the heater core with the car running to flush the heater core and the coolant gushes out so that makes me think the heater core isnt blocked. The trouble code I got was an "02" but I can't find out what that code equates to be. The cooling system has been flushed; The t-stat has been replaced; blower motor works fine; A/C works fine. I can have the temp set to 90 degrees or 60 degrees but the air is the same unless I turn the A/C on which gets cold. Please advise.

Welcome to the forum nctriangleman. It sounds like the blend door isn't operating so the incoming air isn't going through the heater core before it comes out of the vents. The actuator that operates the door may be broken or the door is stuck. On the last page of the Tech help thread I posted how to run the self test and I also posted where to get repair info that may be of interest to you (see the last post on the last page for repair info)