Heater hose!!!!
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Heater hose!!!!
Ok so yesterday im on a 3mile long bridge and the coolant sensor starts buzzing and then the temp guage climb so i pushed in the clutch and coasted to the end. I opened the hood and a huge cloud of steam was coming out from the hose that goes from the block to the firewall under the oil filter, (If yours is old replace it) well i fixed it and drove home, went to the parts store and got some heater hose and replaced the hose with some good new stuff. Well tonight i was driving around and the low coolant came on, looked uder the car and it was leaking coolant. Jacked the car up and saw that it was coming out from the floor board. so the question is the metal nipple that the hose goes to in the firewall, could that have gotten broken to where ever past the firewall it goes? I did take the hose off and retighten the clamp and tomorrow will see if that makes a difference, but could i have broken something? like the heater core? I dunno?
Thanks.
-chris
Thanks.
-chris
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oh no 
. sounds like you may have broken the heater core inlet when you pulled the hose off. I think those are very fragile. changing the heater core is a MAJOR job. not fun.
for the time being, (unless you can prove it's comming from somewhere else) I'd just loop the 2 heater hoses together to stop it from leaking. but you won't have any heat.
. sounds like you may have broken the heater core inlet when you pulled the hose off. I think those are very fragile. changing the heater core is a MAJOR job. not fun.for the time being, (unless you can prove it's comming from somewhere else) I'd just loop the 2 heater hoses together to stop it from leaking. but you won't have any heat.
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Ive heard that if you tug too hard on the hoses going through the fire wall (heater hoses) then the heater core may actually break. it would be best and MUCH easier to use a knife or boxcutter and cut the hose off. Also a little WD40 will loosen the old ruba.
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Also those heater core inlet and outlets are made of brass. If you wrench on that old hose to much with a pipe wrench you will bend them and make them out of round.
I did that to the one on the passenger side. The resulting leak endedup inside the car on the passernger floor board. I though my heater core was done for.
But I found the real leak. I bent that damn thing. Ended up taking RTV and smearing it on the heater brass part and slipping the hose on.
Leak is gone and all is well.
James
I did that to the one on the passenger side. The resulting leak endedup inside the car on the passernger floor board. I though my heater core was done for.
But I found the real leak. I bent that damn thing. Ended up taking RTV and smearing it on the heater brass part and slipping the hose on.
Leak is gone and all is well.
James
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Well i let a friend of mine remove the hose and i think that might have been it. He might have broken it, Today im gonna fill it up with water and go for a drive and see if it still leakes coolant Im gonna try what wankel7 said, and just make sure its not the hose leaking.
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Originally posted by chris-reed
HOw hard is the heater core to replace? whats involved, remove the dash? how hard is that?
HOw hard is the heater core to replace? whats involved, remove the dash? how hard is that?
Like anything else, its not very hard, just time consuming. And you do have to take the dash out, and anytime you mess with the dash, you run the chance of breaking connectors and having a loose dashboard.
its hot out, you don't need a heater... just bridge the heater inlet and oulet at the engine, and if you want to, wait until this fall, when you aren't going to die from heat stroke outside, to replace the heater core...
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I replaced my heater core without removing the dash components. Its a pain in the ***, but if you have someone help you its o.k. I laid on my back for hours under the drivers side console and eventually got it out with out breaking anything. It turned out it was the valve that needed replacing (leaked like hell). I suggest not removing the dashboard but whatevers easiest for you.
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Well after driving it today i didn't notice the leak, but i didn't drive to far, tomorrow i will know a little better, But Hey Matlock, how did you do it, Just a little more detail please, and Kurgan, if it is bad ill do just like you said, replace it this fall, its so hot i don't even feel like driving the damn thing,
