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Wow, what a ball buster of a job. It flat kicked my butt and I had already drained it down, and gotten one hose off in advance! It took me 12 hours today but, I ran into a miriad of problems Like, dropping a socket into the header pipe when I decided to drop it for easier access to the coolant pipe that runs outside the engine which I removed to install the lower heater hose! And, it just all takes time. I flushed the heater core with white vinegar, and for some reason, the stuff coming out of the heater core was oily. I kept dumping small amounts of distilled water into the top tube of the heater and then using my mouth and another hose blew into the hose and the liquid would come blasting out of the other tube and it was oily for some reason. this was before I started using the white vinegar. And, it continued to look oily until towards the end, finishing with a couple of rinses with distilled water.
I had a couple old hoses crack and had to improvise like, cut the cracked portion away, and choke up on the hose. I also broke the little nipple off the flame trap and, my spare flame trap is the old angled one and, I had a hell of a time rigging that to work until I can get a new one. You name it, and it happened to me today. This is one of the hardest repairs that I have done, and I have done thousands. It was mostly crap going wrong, losing parts and tools, problems taking that coolant pipe off, until I dropped the header pipe, and then dropped a damn socket into it and couldn't get it out with a magnet, and then ran into problems dropping the header pipe all costing me at least another hour and probably more I did follow the rules listed like, no tap water or no orange coolant however, I didn't pull the coolant sensor under #3. I still don't know if I have any leaks and if it will run since I had it so far apart. I also pulled and cleaned the throttle body, IAC both for easier access to those damn hoses. A lesser man would have given around hour one. I am either not very smart, or stubborn as hell because this was one hell of a pain in the @$$ of a job. But, I didn't quit or give up or stop for 12 hours. No lunch, no dinner. Hope I don't have any leaks!!
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