How do you access the area under the fresh air grill at the bottom of the windshield. Mine is full, and I mean full, of leaves. I pulled the passengerside kick panel next to the left leg and there was a ton of leaves in there as well. I don't see any way to access that area even from under the hood. Thanks. Oh, it's a 1990 240 sedan that I'm trying to resurect.

 

Get A Haynes manual.

 

Thanks for your help. The two stores I went to didn't have one. I have one on the way that I ordered on line. That doesn't help me this weekend though.

 

From the faq file
Homemade Cabin Air Filter. [Tip from Rafael Riverol] My '95 960 has sucked enough tree leaves, pine needles, etc. through fan blower air intake and into evaporator chamber to turn into dirt, grow mold, blow out air vents and block drainage for evaporator condensation. To stop this, I bought a Shop-Vac 3 inch Reusable Dry Filters and Mounting Ring (Shop-Vac P/N 901-07) at Pep Boys for about $5. I suppose it can be found through www.shopvac.com too. The bag contains three large sheets of filter paper, one sturdy plastic ring and one large rubber band. I took one sheet of paper and cut from the edge one round piece with a radius about two inches larger than the plastic ring (or four inch larger diameter). Put this round piece of paper over the air intake and pushed the plastic ring down over it (narrow end down). Perfect fit! Of course, one has to remove windshield wipers and that plastic drainage channel to get to the air intake. I will cut the rest of the sheet of paper to fit over air intake inside the car (below the glove compartment and behind plastic trim) to hold it in place with the large rubber band. Two more sheets of filter paper are left over for future changes. I tried the A/C with the blower set at maximum speed and the paper filter looks like it will remain in place and not blow into the squirrel cage. For a 740/760/940, I think one could use the filter paper with the rubber band that comes in the bag. In my 760 I have put a flat (grease) filter with a plastic grid backing from a stove hood, wedged between that brace tube and the rubber lip for the air intake and held with a couple of zip ties. With the plastic grid facing down, the filtering element is kept from being sucked into the squirrel cage. [Dick Riess] This idea works for 960 cars; it would also work on the 940 SE as it is basically a 960 body. The air intake is similar.

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That's great info. Thanks.