Rage13

dose anyone know how to remove the heater coil box with out taking out the dash? i have removed 3 screws from it (all i could see) but there is still something holding the top of the box inplace that i can't get to.. any ideas?

SBlackfoot

There's three more at the top. It's tough to do without taking out the dash but it's not impossible. Lots of people here have done so (some of us rather recently). In my case I only needed to take out two of the three screws at the top to get it loose, which was great since I could barely even touch that one much less get a screwdriver bit on it. I did have to pull my dashpad and speaker though, as well as my ECM.

Rage13

thanks for the advice, i already have the dash pad off and speakers are still not in yet, so that should help.. about removing the dash, what all holds it in? i see 2 good sized nuts at the top on both sides, but i'm sure theres more to it then that.. any one pulled out their dash before?

erictheviking

Oh **** I took a hammer to mine.Should have looked here first eh.It's not that bad though as the one I scrapped was an A/C one and I want to replace it with a non A/C one(A/C in the UK isn't that crucial and mine needed way too much money spent on it-weighs too much anyway)Where there many cars built with a non-A/C housing or does anyone make an aftermarket one?

SBlackfoot

Offhand I'm not sure how well the dash is held in. Without the centre console in the way, with the dash pad, lower panels radio bezel and radio (and possibly the HVAC controls) removed, there shouldn't be much more than the large nuts on either side. Thankfully I didn't tear it down that far.

How is the A/C heater core different than the non-A/C unit? Just curious...

erictheviking

On the A/C box,the ducting which holds the blower motor also incorporates mucho A/C gear.On the non A/C one the ducting is much smaller as it only has to hold the blower motor and direct the airflow into the inlet on the firewall.Also on the (rare) occasion I saw a non A/C casing, it was made from steel and not recycled beaver turds (looked like that to me!!!)

PonyKiller87

I have one of the non A/C cars they also have fresh air inlets under the dash to make up for not having A/C

My car is now a defog only set up. I removed all of the heater acept for the defoger vents in the dash, and the blower. Frees up alot of space and weight and should provide a fair amount of fresh air and keep the windows clear.