HELP! I got a new core for my radiator and installed it today. Filled her up with coolant & started up the engine with no issues. Car was blocking the driveway so couldn't take her out for a spin, so let her warm for about 15 minutes. Temperature wouldn't go beyond 160 degrees and no leaks so I shut her down and did some other things. About 45 minutes later I noticed a puddle of coolant so I crawled underneath to check. Coolant is dripping out of some type of tube coming out of the firewall & I don't know what it is. Can anyone tell me what this nipple coming out of the firewall is? It's on the drivers side behind the valve cover. These photos are taken from the bottom of the car looking up. More detailed view of the nipple with coolant dripping
Thanks bcschief - %&#@$!! I was affraid it was something like that... Is there a write up on how to R/R the core?
You need a Chrysler shop manual for that year. I assume you're talking about the "Chrysler TC" mentioned under your user name. If nothing else, you need to tell us the year, make, and model of the car in question (or is that what "66TC" in your username means). Regardless, removing a heater core various from make to make, model to model, and no one set of directions will cover them all. If someone else on here with another Chrysler of similar vintage sees this thread and has done the repair, you'd be in luck, but that's hit or miss, and there's no substitute for the factory service manual.
Heater cores can be anything from a 1 hour job to a 10 marathon! As suggested, you need the shop manual to tell how much has to come apart.
We'll be happy to change your heater core if you do the one in my 2004 Dodge truck. Mine is one of those 10 marathon heaters! Might as well buy two if you get those Chinese replacements and try to remember how you did it.
