Re: [E30Group] Re: Coolant mixture NEW HEATER CORE?

google around for info on how to replace the heater core. I started to do mine 
by the book
and after getting deeply into it realized that the odds of my putting it back 
together correctly were pretty
slim. Did the google and was able to finish the job reasonably quickly.


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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:23 AM
Subject: [E30Group] Re: Coolant mixture  NEW HEATER CORE?
 

  

Hi all
Is it a Hellish job to replace the heater rad. ie much stripping 
down/fascia(?)etc?  Mine burst and is now shorted out -  by-passed with hose.   
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Thanks
TT 
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Allister Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> thermostat not openin?, i think all the hoses should be hot once it 
> opens, a new heater core does wonders! .You can hear the switch 
> mentioned with your head down in the location, turning the heat blend 
> knob on and off produces a small click. It is an on off switch valve...
> just over half on the guage sounds a bit hot but thats perhaps  a non 
> issue at this point. i guess at this point you could even have the 
> hoses backwards?? my free 2 cents)
> 
> On 13-Feb-12, at 8:30 PM, Ed MacVaugh wrote:
> 
> > Have you checked the electric heater control valve to the left of the
> > trans tunnel above the gas pedal on a left hand drive car?
> >
> > Ed>>> - I have no heat. I felt that if I bled the engine half way
> > > decently, I shoul have some semblance of heat. nada. I blew air 
> > into the
> > > upper heater core pipe, and water spat out the bottom pipe, but 
> > now my
> > > concern is the core itself is plugged (where the fins are) and the
> > > water/air is simply spitting back out from behind the plastic area 
> > on
> > > the end of the core. In other words, water and air are NOT traveling
> > > through the heater core itself ?
> > > I get a "bubbling" noise when I shut off the car well after reaching
> > > operating temperature - the gauge is just above halfway. The hose 
> > from
> > > the pump to the thermostat actually vibrates a bit. I have used the
> > > bleeder screw and jacked up the front of the car. the upper radiator
> > > hose is hot and the lower one is not. The upper hose for the 
> > heater is
> > > that weird three-way one and it seems OK, but not very hot (should 
> > it?)
> > > and the lower one to the head is similar. I do not have the recall
> > > notice by-pass thermostat on this car.
> > > Ideas other than the system is still not properly bled?
> > > Thanks all!
> > > Ross
> >
> >
>