New Owner, Humbly Looking for Guidance

69conv - 72dart and I found a needle valve on the input hose to the heater core. Maybe this is the restrictor? I'm not planning on running high rpms. This will just be a cruiser, with an occasional brisk acceleration. I hope the next heater core last as long as the first.

UPDATE - This status has existed for a while, but I've become very busy at work (who do they think they are?) and am late getting back up in FABO. The bench seat & seat belts came out, and the bench seat is not very heavy. I was hoping to find a brown bag filled with money & scribed with A. Capone under the seat, but no such luck. It was very clean up underneath. The cabin is WIDE OPEN now, easy to get up under the dash.

A coolant hose was disconnected at the LF fender area, and drained into a bucket. Then I blew air from my compressor into that hose into the heater core. It pushed a significant amount more coolant out of that hose and into the bucket (props to FABO I read that tip on here). So the heater core should be fairly empty. The hoses were disconnected at the firewall. As of last night I was taking the motor seal plate off, but ran into a problem. No 1/4" wrench, and a socket wouldn't fit into the area to fit that little bolt & finish removing that plate. But hopefully soon I'll be able to drop the heater core out. I suspect I'll have to disconnect the A/C lines / evaporator and pull it out at the same time. Just trying to take my time and do this job right. I don't care to ruin anything, or have to have the car towed home because I rushed and did it half-arsed.

I'll order the new heater core once this one is removed so I can eyeball it and hopefully order the correct heater core the first time. I'll take the leaky one when I buy the new one and hold them up together to make sure I'm taking home a winner.

Later.


7milesout