USART on 16F627

[electronicsuk]

Hi all. I've just finished soldering up four PCB's for a serially controlled switch box. I'm using the UART for receiving data, but I don't need to transmit so decided to use portb.2 (TX on the 16F627) as an output pin to my triac isolators. However, whenever the serial port is enabled this pin is constantly set high. Is there any way on this PIC to turn on serial reception without enabling the transmit pin?

There is absolutely no way I can resolder the PCB's, as the boards have now been cased up and the triacs (isolated tab of course!) riveted to the metal casing for use as a heatsink

Thanks,

Matthew