heater core replacement

[marauder410]

me and my buddy replaced hos heater core in his car today a 2003 CVPI and it took us 4 hours total from start to finsih and it was both our first time doing one of these

it was not at all as bad as everyone kept saying it was going to be just need patients and time

now his car is back to normal

he got 3 estimates on it ford stealership told him wait for...wait for itttt.....900.00 parts/labor .........one place said 650 and lowest one was 450.00

im too good of a freind to help him for nothin

[loud2004marquis]

NICE! Four hours is really good time!

I helped my dad replace his a couple years ago on his 95 Grand Marquis.
Now if the Marauder needs one, we know what to do.

It is wonderul knowing how much money you save doing this job yourself.

Would hate to be without heat this time of year!

[fastblackmerc]

Did you replace the blend door actuator also? You know that will be the next thing to go.....

[loud2004marquis]

Did you replace the blend door actuator also? You know that will be the next thing to go.....

Very true.

[marauder410]

ive did my research and i seen the same thing and told him about the situation but it didnt register with him so what can you doo....if it was my MM i would have done both bec it right there next to each other

ANY two decent home mechanics can pull this off trust me wasent half as bad as some reviews i have foundd... peice of cake acually just need time and patients to not break the dash loll...

we just puled to dash foward just enough to reach back there and replace some places wll tak the entire dash off and thats were we saved some time

[loud2004marquis]

You drop the steering column?

[marauder410]

yes steering column needed to be dropped that was the worst part i didnt want mess mess anything up under there but everyting went surprising well and smooth had trouble gettting to that last bolt to the firewall on top of the box

[tbone]

Nice work!