[Shotimes] Disable Heater Core

[Carl Prochilo]

WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, JINX US?!?!?!   ; )
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Mon, January 3, 2005 5:08 pm, George Fourchy said:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:28:32 -0600, Paul L Fisher wrote:
>
>>In talking to
>>Doug Mellum from Performance-Plus, he mentioned that he had hardly ever
>> seen
>>a heater core on a Taurus go out and most likely culprit is that the
>> clamps
>>on the hoses that heed the heater core have loosened up and now allow
>>coolant to stream into the firewall openings.
>
> He doesn't know about the Slorider from Hell and the Plus from Hell....!!
>
> The wagon went through 3 or 4 heater cores within a year, near the end of
> its
> factory warranty period, plus there is the Plus from Hell.....heck, it's
> core was
> straight from Hell.
>
> The core has to be grounded to the engine, and since the heater is made of
> plastic,
> that can be hard.  The wagon had (has) a factory defect in that it wasn't
> grounded,
> and who knows what was wrong with that poor plus.
>
> Hoses can be the fix, but heater cores definitely rot out.   Guaranteed!!!
>
> ...especially when they are 10 or 12 years old....
>
> George
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