dickster86

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So i drove to my girlfriends tonight which is about 40 miles from house, mostly interstate, and when i got there i noticed that my passenger side floor mat was all wet. I lifted up the floor mat and there was a pool of coolant under it. So i am guessing i need a new heater core but i dont know for sure. I just bought the car on sat. and this is my first LT1. Its a 95 6-speed with 115,xxx miles on it. Just wondering the procedure and perhaps the cost of getting this fixed. any help would be greatly apperciated.

Thanks,
Dick

cyamaha2007

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you have to pull part of the dash out i dont know where you live but it is warm you could bypass it for now.

dickster86

iTrader: (6)

Ya i live in houston so i think i might have to do that. Do u know where i could get some info on how to do this.

cyamaha2007

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ill go out and look real fast i let you know in a sec

Dragframe

iTrader: (14)

cakewalk to bypass... two water hoses goign to heater core... jsut connect them to each other...

cyamaha2007

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ok on the pass side fire wall there a 2 hoses that are metal that turn to ruber trace those back to ruber lines and disconect them and put a pice of coper pipe betwen the 2 bleed the system and ur good to go.

dickster86

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Thanks for the help, I will try and fix it in the morning.

Dick

Ls1Bait

Or you could just do away with the lines that run to the fire wall and just use a short piece of hose. You can kinda see it in the pic...

knight17Z

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it dosn't take long to change the core...
open the glove box, push in the sides, and it drops right down
after that it's only 3 bolts and 2 hoses

cost me $80 at autozone

dickster86

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Thanks for all of the help.

Dick

dhdenney

iTrader: (53)

Is that your beer holder on top of that elbow. Seriously though, did you just make your firewall plate to go around the heater hoses? I'm about to do this. The_merv has a good setup, but I just wanted to see what others were doing too. Kinda hard to see in the pic.

dhdenney

iTrader: (53)

Or you have no heat????

Ls1Bait

Yea, no heat.

Its a summer weekend driver/race car

Speed Density

iTrader: (38)

Removing the Heater box and acc. is really not that much weight savings. The A/C is what is heavy.

Tony.

dhdenney

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But it's nice to have the extra room!

Speed Density

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I just cut the **** out of my black box in the bay so that my headers would fit

Tony.