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Old Jan 30, 2001 | 04:00 PM
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Heater hose routing must be wrong? Loosing ALL my coolant .. help

Hey guys how's it going?

I recently removed my supercharger and switched to a single plane intake...

I'm not using my heater, but i still have the core, control valve etc in place. However, something is not connected right. There are 3 hoses that connected to the valve (not including the vacuum line). 1 of the hoses is connected to radiator, one looks like it goes to the heater core, and the third is just laying down there open.

Anyway, after driving around for a while, i am totally out of coolant. I have never seen it leak out of that hose, but i'm sure thats where its coming from. No i have not turned the heater on. Anyway on the old intake i had it run straight from the radiator to the intake, totally bypassing the heater control. On this intake i do not have choice..

Where should the unplugged hose go? The intake? Anyway i could just plug it or something?

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Shane

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Old Jan 30, 2001 | 05:17 PM
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Old Jan 30, 2001 | 08:49 PM
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Do these help?
http://www.fbody.com/members/workman/Heaterbypass.jpg
http://www.fbody.com/members/workman/HoseRoute.jpg
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Old Jan 30, 2001 | 09:40 PM
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Yeah, kind of.. So there are 3 hoses.. 1 is return to radiator? 1 goes to intake? 1 goes to heater core?

See i dont have a place for water on my intake.. so how can i disable it? Or just keep it from leaking out :-)

Thanks a lot.
Shane

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Old Jan 30, 2001 | 10:33 PM
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I find it hard to belive there is absolutely no plaec for a heater core hose.. There has to be something like on top of the intake. Do you have a picture.... or better yet what intake are you using?
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Old Jan 31, 2001 | 04:21 PM
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shane you might have to go as far as removing a pipe plug and installing a nipple for the heater hose to make it work.

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