Back again. I bought my 57 Country Sedan for long drives. First one was to get it home from Bend Oregon to Boulder Colorado. Had the generator go out. Thanks to everyone here, I got home safe and sound and have that generator rebuilt and back in. Works great. My next trip is from Boulder to Chicago. And of course, a few more shake-out problems have arisen.



I had a horrible noise under the hood. Unsure if it was water pump or simply belt squeal. Replaced the water pump and now all is well. I still have the original pump, and I think it was probably the belt.



The other problem is that I've not had a working heater since I bought the wagon. I bought a B7A-18495-A heater control valve from Dennis Carpenter. Cleaned the heater core, installed new control valve and gasket and it worked fine for about a half an hour. Sadly, that was enough to make me think it was fine. Now I'm on a 2,200 mile road trip without heat, and it is unpleasant. There is a huge vacuum leak from the control valve. Should it be this way? I'm thinking not, but I really don't know. I've tried to seal it up with duct tape, but it hasn't worked.



Any tricks for getting heat? I'd be really happy to have it full blast all the time. I've already removed the mechanism which varied the vacuum the actual control valve, now running full vacuum to the new heater control valve. No heat, just a lot of vacuum leak noise.



Less than half way through the driving, hoping someone can help me keep warm!!!

Jim - Erie Colorado, 1957 Country Sedan