DaBears1983

Hey guys I got my 87 vert without heat...the previous owner butched all the heat out for what reason idk but now in tryin to get some comfort back and wanting to put heat back in...the climate control stuff all work just no hot air and under the hoood it looks like they took everything out...there's just two id say nipples or conections under the hood that go thru the firewall...how hard will it be to reinstall what someone butched out?? Thanks for the help

I can post a pic later when I get home

1989 GT KY

What's missing under the dash?

Tony71502

Not too hard, the right way would be buying new coolant hoses and the metal coolant tube that bolts to the lower intake manifold.

I'd say as long as you get coolant properly flowing into the heater core again you will have heat back. I'm not using the metal coolant tube anymore, just long hose, because I took my stuff out and then my ex wanted heat during a 3000 mile trip to Daytona in March, IDK why... use a blanket bitch.

prangy

She's a nice lady

DaBears1983

To my knowledge nothing is missing under the dash just missing the hoses under the hood...does anyone know how the hoses are routed or have a good pic of a setup its kinda cold here in illinois and heat is desperately needed

DaBears1983

Actually going out and lookin under the hood again I found that the two hoses (inlet, return) looks as if they were joined together to bypass the heater core...I wonder why they did this? I'm thinkin maybe bc the heater core was leakin or somthing...idk...the two nipples are the heater hose connections right? An the other two which are disconnected also and have actual screw type fittings are for the ac??
Another thing the nipples look to have surface rust on the inside of what I can see, if I hook the hoses up will the rust do damage?

Jfsram

I'd place a pretty safe bet on the system was bypassed to avoid the big huge job of changing a Mustang heater core.

DaBears1983

How many hrs does it call for? the whole dash prob has to come out huh?!? oh well i got the weekend and i think im gonna try to tackle it...anyone got a step by step how to?

Tony71502

The coolant hoses should be clamped onto the heater core with a hose clamp. The heater core is not iron/steel, it shouldn't be rusting. The corrosion should appear greenish/blue because it is copper.

ALMOST STOCK

Last time I replaced my heater core it took me about 5 hrs.

For set by step try any one of these .

http://www.mylrs.com/blogs/lrs/archi...placement.aspx

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/howto/...ent/index.html

http://www.mustangsteve.com/heatercore.html