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1998 F-150 heater core....How bad will it be?

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Post  Treeyasoon July 26th 2010, 10:20 am

Heading in to work today, flipped on the defrost and turned the cab of my truck into a sauna....steam rolling out of the vents.
Anyone know how big of a PITA this is going to be? Does the whole dash have to come out or, can I get to it by just taking out the glove box?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
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Post  richter69 July 26th 2010, 10:49 am

Real easy job................















........once the dash is sitting in the floor.
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Post  blown86hallet July 26th 2010, 11:45 am

richter69 wrote:Real easy job................


Compared to the 6.4L? Yep, EASY!














........once the dash is sitting in the floor.
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Post  richter69 July 26th 2010, 12:51 pm

blown86hallet wrote:
richter69 wrote:Real easy job................


Compared to the 6.4L? Yep, EASY!

compared to a 6.4 everything is easy.

Have 5 shortblocks sitting in the floor as we speak..............man the 6.4 is dud.












........once the dash is sitting in the floor.
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Post  jbozzelle July 26th 2010, 2:43 pm

richter69 wrote:
blown86hallet wrote:
richter69 wrote:Real easy job................


Compared to the 6.4L? Yep, EASY!

compared to a 6.4 everything is easy.

Have 5 shortblocks sitting in the floor as we speak..............man the 6.4 is dud.












........once the dash is sitting in the floor.


Speaking of 6.4s..... If you run into the guy that put the fuel filter on the frame kick him in the nads for me..... That is all!






Get ready for some work on the heater core though.

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Post  richter69 July 26th 2010, 3:25 pm


I agree, that filter setup is f-ckin stupid........pretty sure a ford engineer designed it........obviously he has never changed one..........

About like designing a heater core you need to pul the f-ckin dash out to get to.........

But man the ToRqUe........... Very Happy
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Post  bb429power July 26th 2010, 3:28 pm

richter69 wrote:
I agree, that filter setup is f-ckin stupid........pretty sure a ford engineer designed it........obviously he has never changed one..........

About like designing a heater core you need to pul the f-ckin dash out to get to.........

But man the ToRqUe........... Very Happy
You should see how to refill the tranny's in the new mountaineers Shocked hint hint, there is no filler tube.
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Post  jbozzelle July 26th 2010, 4:10 pm

The filter would be easy if the transfer case, skid plate and front driveshaft was nowhere to be found... It would be even more of a plus if it didn't leak fuel the entire time you have it apart too...

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Post  richter69 July 26th 2010, 4:43 pm

bb429power wrote:
richter69 wrote:
I agree, that filter setup is f-ckin stupid........pretty sure a ford engineer designed it........obviously he has never changed one..........

About like designing a heater core you need to pul the f-ckin dash out to get to.........

But man the ToRqUe........... Very Happy
You should see how to refill the tranny's in the new mountaineers Shocked hint hint, there is no filler tube.

well considering I'm also the tranny guy here .......................lol.................in fact i have an LS on the lift i gotta go fill................independant down the road towed in in for me to put fluid in................ Laughing
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Post  richter69 July 26th 2010, 4:44 pm

jbozzelle wrote:The filter would be easy if the transfer case, skid plate and front driveshaft was nowhere to be found... It would be even more of a plus if it didn't leak fuel the entire time you have it apart too...

they did redesign the primary filter on the 2011's, much much easier...............I rekon someone got thier job threatened over that deal.................. Laughing
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Post  billandlori July 26th 2010, 6:06 pm

The heater cores in the 80's F trucks were a breeze, open the glove box, pull out the glove box liner and there is the plate that holds the heater core in!! Pop it off, undo the hoses and it slides right out. Obviously a poor design in need of re-engineering. Rolling Eyes

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Post  Treeyasoon July 26th 2010, 7:25 pm

I was afraid this was what I was going to hear.... Sad



But, on the bright side, this beer sure is tasty.... Very Happy
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