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Thank you everyone for helping out with this one. I know I took one out of my 74 Z-28 back then I would work on anything. I had a lot of patience and it didn’t bother me if it took a few days.
My son is really patient as well. Real nice person. Very smart, he has his masters degree in Chemical Engineering, 7 years of school, when he has the time to go back to college part time he is 6-12 months away from his PHD. So he is very book smart not as hands on as me. His decision not to put $600 into the car was not so much that he does not have the cash to do it but more from the standpoint of being financially practical with a car that old. He had been thinking about getting a new car within the next 4-6 months. He originally bought the Caviler in 04 with 38K on the odometer for around $3800. Funny thing he didn’t like the 3 year loan at 6% so he paid it off in less than a year.
The problem with taking the dash out is that I have a feeling that it is going to take me more than a few days and this is his only means of going to work and I have a job that I am very busy at so that was why I was looking for any short cuts like the guy that did the video of cutting the lower mounting bracket on the Taurus.
Sorry for half the life story. I really wanted to update you on what has been done as a temporary fix and again thank all of you for your help. I do all the work on my vehicles and I am not used to having to give up. It may take me longer with my health but giving up is not usually an option.
As I had said in the original posting he dropped it off at a garage that a co-worker suggested. That was Thursday night. They didn’t have it ready until this morning. I took him to the garage and they said they had bypassed the heater core and ran up to normal temperature to see if it leaked at all either the bypass or the head gasket. Perfect no leaking at all. Pretty interesting the way they bypassed the heater core. They didn’t do it at the firewall. They by passed it back at one side of the thermostat and one side going into the engine block just following the 2 heater hoses back and they disconnected the hoses at the front of the engine and just disconnected the hoses there and tied them back with tie wraps. Then they just put a short heater hose to each side so the coolant is just bypassing the heater core. This will make it easier for me to work on in the next couple of weeks. If anyone is interested in seeing the bypass job just let me know he will be at my house for fathers day tomorrow and I can take a couple of pictures and post them on here.
Thanks again happy Fathers day to all you great Dads out there.
Frank
Thank you everyone for helping out with this one. I know I took one out of my 74 Z-28 back then I would work on anything. I had a lot of patience and it didn’t bother me if it took a few days.
My son is really patient as well. Real nice person. Very smart, he has his masters degree in Chemical Engineering, 7 years of school, when he has the time to go back to college part time he is 6-12 months away from his PHD. So he is very book smart not as hands on as me. His decision not to put $600 into the car was not so much that he does not have the cash to do it but more from the standpoint of being financially practical with a car that old. He had been thinking about getting a new car within the next 4-6 months. He originally bought the Caviler in 04 with 38K on the odometer for around $3800. Funny thing he didn’t like the 3 year loan at 6% so he paid it off in less than a year.
The problem with taking the dash out is that I have a feeling that it is going to take me more than a few days and this is his only means of going to work and I have a job that I am very busy at so that was why I was looking for any short cuts like the guy that did the video of cutting the lower mounting bracket on the Taurus.
Sorry for half the life story. I really wanted to update you on what has been done as a temporary fix and again thank all of you for your help. I do all the work on my vehicles and I am not used to having to give up. It may take me longer with my health but giving up is not usually an option.
As I had said in the original posting he dropped it off at a garage that a co-worker suggested. That was Thursday night. They didn’t have it ready until this morning. I took him to the garage and they said they had bypassed the heater core and ran up to normal temperature to see if it leaked at all either the bypass or the head gasket. Perfect no leaking at all. Pretty interesting the way they bypassed the heater core. They didn’t do it at the firewall. They by passed it back at one side of the thermostat and one side going into the engine block just following the 2 heater hoses back and they disconnected the hoses at the front of the engine and just disconnected the hoses there and tied them back with tie wraps. Then they just put a short heater hose to each side so the coolant is just bypassing the heater core. This will make it easier for me to work on in the next couple of weeks. If anyone is interested in seeing the bypass job just let me know he will be at my house for fathers day tomorrow and I can take a couple of pictures and post them on here.
Thanks again happy Fathers day to all you great Dads out there.
Frank