Re: KPack

Posted by kevinpackard On 2021/7/7 21:24:08

Took some time the other day to work on a few parts. I pulled off the heater box to disassemble and clean it out, and to check the heater core. An amazing amount of sand poured out of every part of the box while doing so.

Someone had already been into the heater core in the past, since the two rear-facing screws were missing. I will leave them off so I can easily access the core without having to take the whole assembly off the firewall.

I wire wheeled and sandblasted everything to bare metal, then painted it all with black appliance epoxy. I'm pretty sure the heater core has a leak because I could see wisps of vapor coming out of the box when I had it hooked up and the car warmed up. However, I submerged the core and put about 10 lbs of air pressure into and didn't see any bubbles. So I'm not sure. I can remove the heater box top and get to the core easily in the future if I need to.

While I was in there I cleaned up the splash panel and air blower, then painted them as well. I will need to replace the flexible ducting at some point.

Overall it looks less disgusting in the engine bay right now. Eventually I will need to pull the fenders and address the engine and exhaust. But at least it's beginning to look slightly better.

-Kevin

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  Heater box stripped and ready for paint.jpg (105.98 KB)


  Heater box painted.jpg (68.31 KB)


  Air duct painted.jpg (102.76 KB)


  Clean heater box.jpg (92.31 KB)


  Heater box and engine bay before.jpg (121.11 KB)


  Engine bay looking slightly better.jpg (151.89 KB)