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The flap you're referring to is the fresh air door. On your center console you should see two yellow buttons under the HVAC controls between the two windows switches. If you press the one of the left (looks like a car with a "U" in the middle of it), This controls the opening/closing of the fresh air door. The other control, on the right is for the heated mirrors and rear window. If you push the recirc/fresh button in, it should close this flap giving you recirculated air which is best in warm weather when operating the A/C as you're not constantly cooling hot outside air, but keeping the cool air inside the car cold.

for the RMS, you should be able to do it without removing the oil as most of it should remain in the pan, however, seeing that it will provide a large enough opening to allow foreign material to be accidentally introduced (hopefully unlikely, but chances always exist), I'd suggest an oil change just to be on the safe side. Remember, oil is cheap insurance. Anytime I open an engine or gearbox, I always replace fluids as a few extra bucks to ensure fresh fluid is much more economical than an expensive repair due to oversight later down the road.

If it's like the V8, the bearing is pressed into the rear of the crankshaft, along with some loctite adhesive of some number which escapes me for the moment. I found the easiest and cleanest way to go about it was to use shredded bits of paper (taken from the discharge bin of my paper shredder), soaked in water and packed into the pilot bearing hole. Find a suitable punch or in my case, I used a socket and extension to drive the paper mash in, keep adding more paper as needed. It took me less than 5 minutes to remove the bearing and any residual paper wiped out much easier than grease would have (which is the "standard" method most use). AS I recall, taking my time and occasional breaks here and there, the whole process of GB removal, clutch replacement and reassembly took somewhere around 6-8 hours with help.....would have been 4-6 without the help, but was my step-dad assisting me, and couldn't exactly tell him to go away.

Not a fix, but maybe a direction to look at.

Had same situation on mine some time back. Fortunately the problem went away, but I too could hear the stepper motor cycle about every 2-3 seconds, however mind would do it in the "blend" mode which aimed between defrost and floor. If I recall, it did this for about a week until I our cold snap went away, and so far this year it's not done the same thing. Perhaps a bit of cleaning in the mode switch might be in order (bad contact causing it to cycle?).

As I understand it, she is suing because the security video was leaked. As I have come to understand only charges have been filed against the private security company that allowed this to happen, not the mall in which it took place in. Personally I find it incredibly interesting that the timing of this "accident" and her pending theft lawsuit are so closely related in time. Almost as if she's planned this to happen as a way to collect money to pay the lawsuit resulting from her stupidity for steeling from the co-worker. I can respect that she was embarassed over the whole tripping into the fountain thing and as others have said, no one would have a clue who she is if she hadn't come forward with this.