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Heater Core Good or Bad?

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Old 11-17-2008, 11:23 AM
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I would just replace since it's easy on your car...I just repalced my daughter's on her 91 GT / had to rip the whole dash out...about a 3-4 hour job...
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Old 11-17-2008, 02:37 PM
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Sorry to hurt your feelings but I like that the 4 eyed dash is alot simpler to get thru than the 87+ is. It sucks I still have the same heater box you do because my car came with AC so I still have to drop the heater box but I just have to pull out my glove box to get to everything to drop it down enough to get the cover for the core off.

I had to pull my dash anyway to get my heating vents back into the car if it makes you feel any better lol. But that still is only 2 screws and 2 bolts that hold the main piece to the car (on mine at least, I made it as easy as possible for future pulls).

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Heater cores usually DOES NOT show any corrosion unless something "WET" has been doing it, aka GLYCOL&H2O, AND OPEN AIR.


BTW I need a new one, and you just hurt my feelings with your SIMPLER PROCEDURE : (, as I am gonna go through hell.


But im thinking of also painting the dash while its out as well.

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Old 11-17-2008, 06:34 PM
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Seems like you pretty much have your mind made up already, and if it's that easy to pull the dash then don't worry about it.
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Old 11-17-2008, 08:09 PM
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I'm a perfect example for poor man racing lol. I don't even want to spend the $20 on a heater core! I go to the junk yard for pretty much every part that I can (within reason)

Thanks for all the reply's by the way
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Old 11-17-2008, 11:41 PM
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Since you've got it out, you might as well buy a new one, just exchanged mine when I bought my car. I think it will just save you a lot of time potentially in the future.
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