No, no heater control valves. Must be a Wrangler thing to not have them because they didn’t in the YJs either.Mine are 03 & 04 and I'm not very familiar with the early ones. I believe production began very early in 1996 and I've always found it odd that they were (I think) known as 97s.
So my question really is did the earliest of the TJs have heater control valves?
96 XJ was a weird year indeed. Still looked old and had all the old styling, yet legally had to be OBDII so it got some newer electronics. It’s getting hard to find them or parts for them. If I got an XJ I’d probably try to stay 97+ I’d think. I think the looks of the 97 were highly improved, the 96 and earlier look “old” to me. Not in a bad way though, just would rather the later version.