I read all the tricks ans still find it a pain in the butt to get to the heater core. Once I get it b ack from the body shop I might just bypass it. I have the dash apart and the entire bottom have but still cant get to a couple of screws.It was bypassed when I got the car guess I found out why.

 

Your dash is taken apart? It's a lotta work but you are so close. I found it easier to pull the passenger seat, and the center console, open everything up so I could get to those hard to access screws, push a few things out of the way... Maybe more than needed but, it gave me unrestricted access so I did it. You might not need or want to.. but, it's a job worth doing once to get heat back into your ride. The biggest hassle was replacing the tight quaters hose on the firewall. You get that far you'll see what I mean.

Dont give up! Good luck!

 

yeah like you said im have way there might as well grit my teeth and keep going,but mine it sucks.

 

are the camaro ones he same as trans ams? i honestly got my done in less than 1 hour. Start to finish and that included vacuuming the antifreeze up from the old one blowing and washing my windsheild to get all the film off of it. I have abrand new heater core still attached to the plastic piece. if its the same you should only have to undo like 4 bolts, slide mine in and put the bolts back on.

i striiped my car COMPLETELY last week, my GF took it out this time in about 20-30 minutes, i really dont understand why everyone thinks they are so hard.

 

I have a core I scavenged from a '92 RS if need one.
Make me an offer if interested. It looks like new.

 

do you have the dash pouch? those allow access to the top screws, which is a lot harder in the camaros.

 

I must be a slow loser because I worked on mine for 5 hours last night and I'm 3/5 of the way done. Plus I have to repair some of the parts I broke in the progress.