The air recirc thing

[FarmerPug]

Now i have a chance to get one on the breaking car, i want to get the box of cogs that does the air recirc job to see whats inside and if i can get an friend who owns a lathe and other such precision instruments to see if we can make a decent replacement.
Anyhow where is this box, i have the centre console out, glove box out fan out. Just a bit confused about what to look for.
Its on a year 2000 car.

[lozz]

inoticed some sort of Electrical gizmo on the side of the heater box /blower box on mines
alittle thing with cogs little box thing with wires on > dont know if its the recirc thing or not but its aworth a nosey at it,

if your breaking the car rip the lot out the heater matrix is worth pulling out and saving whilst its all out,


just a thought mate

[lozz]

yup its no 3 on this.

see pic

[FarmerPug]

diagrams look nice but they never show obstacles in the way

[Gary406]

when the glovebox is removed you will see it sat at the top of the big fan unit at the top.
on the left

[FarmerPug]

Ah yes got the thing out, not too difficult, whats the fuss all about?
Ill need to open it up to see what the inside is like.

[Gary406]

plastic teeth cogs

[steve_earwig]

Which are probably all over the floor by now

[FarmerPug]

no cogs on the floor dont worry
then ill need to ask my cousin can he make them out of brass, or is there websites that make cogs?
This breaking a car things a great job, apart from getting the parts, i think its good to learn how a 406 is built, ive taken off the wings, and front bumper for example, id have been too scared to do it on my good car, but now im fairly confident i could change a wing. The stupidest thing i can see that peugeot has done in the construction of the 406 was them sealing sheets. Other than that its quite a fine car to work on.

[steve_earwig]

Over on the toupé club they're replacing the cogs with ones from toy car clockwork motors

[FarmerPug]

toy cars with good honest cogs, perhaps old dinky cars from the 60's but i doubt any of the rubbish they make these days would have metal cogs in them. I suppose eventually taking different old things apart alarm clocks, old mechano sets, or an old tape player.
I also got a similar part i believe it changes the direction of air flow, its a bit closer to the middle, and says valeo

[steve_earwig]

There should be another one the same the other side of the heater unit thing.

[FarmerPug]

its not the same but it has a similar ending on it.

[FarmerPug]

here it is:

and after opening it up which i dont think was what the manafacturer likes us doing:

[bikedoctor]

oh i got one of those things in my renault master van but all the gears were stripped of teeeth like yours so i took it out and left it out (its only a van) may be worth a trip to a scrappy to see if its the same as a renault or similar though to save you from getting gears made up