Ok just found out mine is leaking. How hard is it to replace. If it is a pain is it possible to by-pass it? I don't use the heater anyways so I don't care if it works I just don't want a lake in passanger side. floor board.

 

Been there, said fukc that. I'm still running my bypass and will jsut get a heater for the winter,

OR

replace it durring the winter & drive the GP. I just got the interior in & want to enjoy it some

and yes, heater core is a pain.

 

It's not technically hard, but trying to reach all those 7mm bolts from the inside of the car will leave your neck and back in pain.

I'm still regretting not putting a new heater core in back when I totalled my car in '96... I wound up putting my old core back in. Which reminds me... I think I had planned to replace that core this summer. Oops...

 

Well the job is done. It took me 4 and 1/2 hours. UGGGGHHH. Hardest part was taking the old hoses off. Through heat they became one with the heater core tubes. Fortunetly they give a little extra hose then what is needed. So I split the hoses and trimed them back. I had just enough hose length to put them back on.

Who ever came up with those squeze hose clamps needs to die!!! What would make a person think hey here's a hard to reach spot lets use squeze clamps that are large enopugh for you to need channel locks to squeze. Make no sense to me.