Rover 214 & 414 Service and Repair Manual - Rover club

3•8 Cooling, heating and ventilation systems
1 Heater case
2 Heater case clip
3 Face level/windscreen
duct
4 Floor level duct
5 Heater matrix
6 Heater matrix cover
7 Cable retaining clip
remove the heater lower mounting nut which
is situated just to the left of the matrix outlets
(see illustrations).
3 Working inside the vehicle, remove the
facia.
4 Slacken and remove the two retaining
screws and remove the blower motor-toheater
unit duct (see illustration). On models
equipped with air conditioning, the evaporator
unit is fitted in place of the duct. It may be
possible to gain the necessary clearance
required to disengage the evaporator from the
heater unit by removing the mounting
brackets and nuts. If not, the evaporator must
be removed.
5 Undo the screw securing the right-hand
heater duct to the mounting bracket, then
move the duct to the right to disengage it from
the heater unit (see illustrations).
10.2a Heater unit components
8 Floor level flap operating
lever
9 Clip
10 Floor level flap idler lever
11 Face level flap idler lever
12 Flap operating lever
13 Air mix flap operating lever
14 Air mix flap
15 Ambient air flap - centre
console vents
16 Distribution flap -
windscreen
17 Distribution flap - face
level vents
18 Distribution flap - floor
level vents
6 Undo the inertia switch retaining nut and
disengage the switch from the steering
column support bracket.
10.4 Remove blower motor-to-heater unit
duct
1689 Rover 214 & 414 Updated Version 09/97
10.2b Disconnect heater feed and return
hoses . . .
10.2c . . . and free heater valve cable from
retaining clip
10.2d Slacken and remove heater unit
lower mounting nut
7 Release the wiring block connector from
the right-hand end of the steering column
support bracket and undo the fusebox
10.5a Undo right-hand duct retaining
screw (arrowed) . . .