Dash-left door jam getting hot-73' targa

[miken426]

Is it normal for the very left lower and upper dash and left front inner door jam next to this area to get what feels to be unusually hot after 20-30 minutes of driving? If not what might cause the heat that I might diagnose?

Thx
Mike Nehra

[RSTarga]

Are your heater hoses under the dash intact? Are heater valves working? Nothing else there to heat up. It is not electrical is it?

[miken426]

My thought is that it might be electrical. I can feel the heat from the heat system traveling under the left door sill next to the driver seat. I just didn't think that the heat system could cause the dash area and left doorjamb area to become almost too hot to touch.

[ESully]

Electrical would usualy have a unique smell from the hot insulation. I would not be surprised to find it is from the heating system. Right by the door jam, the heater tube silencers in the rockers end in a duct that turns up where a piece of fexible duct connects to bring the hot air to the dash blower. I would check the heater ducts in the engine bay. If they are closed and bringing the hot air up front. you may have a leak somewhere.