[DML] Re: Removing Heater Core Supply Line

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps it's just the way I routed my particular hose. Was in the way,
so I removed it. Antifreeze will stop dripping before long. Remember
that right behind the crossover pipe, the takeoff barb is the closest
thing to you -- even closer than the ignition distributor! Makes
removal and reinstallation (of the heater core supply hose) a snap.

BTW: I drain and refill my cooling system in a heartbeat because it's
so easy to bleed. Re-routing the radiator bleed line uphill to my
heater core seems to be the trick (remember: I threw away the metal
pipe section from the radiator where it originally connected. If I'm
not mistaken I gave it to you...). Never realized how prone the stock
configuration was to trap air, even with a vaunted self bleeder, until
I helped two other owners before/after Pigeon Forge refill their
systems. Radiator simply would not bleed unless you cracked that hose
-- great fun with an OEM plastic nipple.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx> wrote:
> Sometimes I think you complicate things just to complicate things. I 
> would not remove the heater hoses to get to the clutch slave - that 
> just pours antifreeze all over everything making an already annoying 
> job even slimier, not to mention adding about 3 more steps to the 
> process and dripping coolant in your face.  It's not really that 
> impossible, crossover pipe or not. This isn't a job you do on a 
> particular car more than once every eight or ten years.
> 





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