I’m a firm believer that an old car’s going to leak eventually if you use it as a car, but dime-sized drops (or growing drops) call me to action. I had tried flushing the core to no avail.Īs the summer progressed, the T-Bird started leaving bigger and bigger drops of transmission fluid in the driveway. The heater is now more than adequate for cool days the old heater core had several pieces of rust that would intermittently block the inlet, which was my hypothesis before I disassembled everything. Nobody makes a foam gasket kit for Bullet Birds, so I made a stop at JoAnn Fabric to buy some material to make my own (fabric stores are lifesavers for people who maintain their own old cars). I also replaced the accessible heater seals. In combination with a couple of new firewall seals, my feet are now in far better shape after a long drive. As a result, the doors would not open or close correctly, and the driver’s footwell was an inferno on a hot day. Two of the four heater/AC door servos are visible in this picture as well two of the four no longer held vacuum. Here is the new heater core attached to the box. Parts and tools find their way from the car and the toolbox until the garage resembles a child’s messy bedroom – “Clean up that mess, Aaron!” As it was, it took a good part of the day. If Ford would have used two tabs (think Tab A into Slot B) instead of screws, this could have been an easy two hour job from start to finish. Second, there are four screws that retain the heater core to the box, and two were unreachable without disconnecting the air box itself from the firewall. First, a portion of the heater box around the blower cage had broken off sometime in the past – I used fiberglass “tiger hair” to reattach it. The heater core job was more annoying than difficult.
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