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Dec 19, 2006 | 11:54 PM

dickster86

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Coolant in the car?

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.

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Dick

Dec 20, 2006 | 12:02 AM

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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.

Dec 20, 2006 | 12:17 AM

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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.

Dec 20, 2006 | 12:21 AM

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

Dec 20, 2006 | 12:22 AM

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

Dec 20, 2006 | 12:28 AM

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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.

Dec 20, 2006 | 12:49 AM

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

Dick

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Dec 20, 2006 | 08:46 AM

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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

Dec 20, 2006 | 01:11 PM

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Thanks for all of the help.

Dick

Dec 20, 2006 | 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 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...

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.