Heater hose routing must be wrong? Loosing ALL my coolant .. help
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Heater hose routing must be wrong? Loosing ALL my coolant .. help
Hey guys how's it going?
I recently removed my supercharger and switched to a single plane intake...
I'm not using my heater, but i still have the core, control valve etc in place. However, something is not connected right. There are 3 hoses that connected to the valve (not including the vacuum line). 1 of the hoses is connected to radiator, one looks like it goes to the heater core, and the third is just laying down there open.
Anyway, after driving around for a while, i am totally out of coolant. I have never seen it leak out of that hose, but i'm sure thats where its coming from. No i have not turned the heater on. Anyway on the old intake i had it run straight from the radiator to the intake, totally bypassing the heater control. On this intake i do not have choice..
Where should the unplugged hose go? The intake? Anyway i could just plug it or something?
THanks,
Shane
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OH i forgot. WEIAND SUPERCHARGER
I recently removed my supercharger and switched to a single plane intake...
I'm not using my heater, but i still have the core, control valve etc in place. However, something is not connected right. There are 3 hoses that connected to the valve (not including the vacuum line). 1 of the hoses is connected to radiator, one looks like it goes to the heater core, and the third is just laying down there open.
Anyway, after driving around for a while, i am totally out of coolant. I have never seen it leak out of that hose, but i'm sure thats where its coming from. No i have not turned the heater on. Anyway on the old intake i had it run straight from the radiator to the intake, totally bypassing the heater control. On this intake i do not have choice..
Where should the unplugged hose go? The intake? Anyway i could just plug it or something?
THanks,
Shane
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Shane Buss 92 Firebird 355, Holley 750 Carb, Vortec 1.94/1.50 Heads (Ported,Polished,Milled .025), 10:1 Comp Ratio, Cam Specs 224/234 498/520, 1.6 Roller Rockers, Hooker Headers, Flowmaster, !Cat, 3.73 Posi, Msd 6A Ignition Cyb. Speedo box
http://users.ev1.net/~sdbuss/index.html
Note all girls on web page are x's, and will be removed when i get more time
OH i forgot. WEIAND SUPERCHARGER
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Yeah, kind of.. So there are 3 hoses.. 1 is return to radiator? 1 goes to intake? 1 goes to heater core?
See i dont have a place for water on my intake.. so how can i disable it? Or just keep it from leaking out :-)
Thanks a lot.
Shane
See i dont have a place for water on my intake.. so how can i disable it? Or just keep it from leaking out :-)
Thanks a lot.
Shane
Originally posted by Dan W:
Do these help?
http://www.fbody.com/members/workman/Heaterbypass.jpg
http://www.fbody.com/members/workman/HoseRoute.jpg
Do these help?
http://www.fbody.com/members/workman/Heaterbypass.jpg
http://www.fbody.com/members/workman/HoseRoute.jpg
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Car: 2000 Trans Am
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Transmission: T56
I find it hard to belive there is absolutely no plaec for a heater core hose.. There has to be something like on top of the intake. Do you have a picture.... or better yet what intake are you using?
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shane you might have to go as far as removing a pipe plug and installing a nipple for the heater hose to make it work.
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