Safe to bypass heater core?

[yonyon]

Heater cores are a pain on a lot of cars. Often it comes down to a decision of whether you want to fight like an angry weasel for a couple of hours and be done with it or take your time, make a nice lazy day of it, and just get everything out of the way nice and casual-like.

The problem with being an angry weasel is that you can expect to get scuffed up pretty badly a couple of times before you learn how to fight.

I'm more the lazy type myself, which is why I'm sitting in front of a computer and a beer with a dog wrapped around my neck. To each their own.

 

[AuthorEditor]

Well, I fought like a weasel for most of two days to get this done. Of course, it turned out that some of the Internet tutorials were inaccurate, which didn't help things. But, on the other hand I looked at the official Ford version of how to do it and it was way too complicated, and the diagrams weren't all that easy to read either. The biggest problem was getting the heater box off and back onto the firewall, which was more of a "feel" thing, along with judicious use of various prying, twisting, and wiggling techniques. Nice to have heat the next frosty morning though. I wonder if car engineers spend any time trying to think about how to make cars easier to work on?

 

[javacontour]

I think I heard that on CarTalk recently.

They hang the heater core from wires and when they get enough car built around it, they cut the wires

Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
Originally Posted By: AuthorEditor
You know, seeing how difficult it is to take these things apart, it would be interesting to see exactly how they put them together in the first place.


Simple: the first thing on the line is a heater core and box. They build the vehicle around it!

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