yes and yes, the plenum is the part of the case the warm air flows up to the defrost vents - the 'thermal heater valve' is called a Ranco valve, should you wind up needing to hunt one down

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics