A/C air direction control?

Hey Joe,

Thanks for the information. I just took out the glove box and cleaned out the blower and replaced the cabin air filter, which looks like it hadn’t been changed in many years. I’m guessing it’s kind of the same process on the driver’s side dash panel, as far as dismantling the lower dash area to get to the actuator?

Okay, so we spent many hours working on accessing the vent door actuator. We removed the driver's side plastic cover, then the metal cover right behind the plastic cover that protects all the wiring and stuff. There was no way to access the actuator that we needed to replace. So, the bottom actuator is for the air temperature, and it is cable operated, the vent door actuator is the one that is just above that one as you showed in the picture, but it’s a bit farther towards the firewall, and it is buried behind metal struts, wire harnesses, and also the vent ducting. We removed struts and vents, pushed wire harnesses around as much as they allowed, and we could never reach the third bolt on the actuator that is located above the actuator. I said we, because I got my younger brother, who is slender and more agile than me, and he’s mechanically inclined, and we just got defeated on this one. I guess that I will live with the cabin air blowing out the defrost vents until I can afford to buy the Toyota part ($339) and have the dealership remove the entire dash to replace it ($1,200+/-).