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Need help on this issue cant seem to find if it has been done bought up or anything using the search, so hear we go n e way, leaking coolant behind heater box need to know how others have fixed this problem and how long does it take, only started 2 days ago and noticed today, carpets all wet which is pretty shit, if someone can help me asap and if a DIY on how to fix this problem, would be great and handy

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http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...showtopic=32611 bugga of a job done my sons a month or so ago

Cheers mate, think ill go with the bypass trick had a look at the guide and not looking forward to pulling entire dash out, so ill bypass it tommorow, can someone confirm a couple of things for me, According to the bypassing guide, they used a inner hose of diameter @21mm, is it possible just to join the hoses with two barbs and another hose, if so what would the diameter of the barbs be, would they be the same at 21 mm, or go for 20 mm barbs to really clamp the b@sterd of the thing down

Stupid bloody heater thing, lucky not so needed up here in QLD as much as down south, also after this i need to source a wet carpet cleaning service, so they can wash the carpet or a self service carpet cleaner similar to the one at 8 mile plains carlovers but i think that one is out of service STIl|LL last time i checked it was. or on another note would it be worth while to replace the underlay/sound deading stuff with new stuff or let it dry? as far as i know ethylene glycol substances are acidic? ie. radiator fluids,

Cheers Adam

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Cheers mate, think ill go with the bypass trick had a look at the guide and not looking forward to pulling entire dash out, so ill bypass it tommorow, can someone confirm a couple of things for me, According to the bypassing guide, they used a inner hose of diameter @21mm, is it possible just to join the hoses with two barbs and another hose, if so what would the diameter of the barbs be, would they be the same at 21 mm, or go for 20 mm barbs to really clamp the b@sterd of the thing down

Stupid bloody heater thing, lucky not so needed up here in QLD as much as down south, also after this i need to source a wet carpet cleaning service, so they can wash the carpet or a self service carpet cleaner similar to the one at 8 mile plains carlovers but i think that one is out of service STIl|LL last time i checked it was. or on another note would it be worth while to replace the underlay/sound deading stuff with new stuff or let it dry? as far as i know ethylene glycol substances are acidic? ie. radiator fluids,

Cheers Adam

Hi just did mine .didnt do all this though. just took out the glovebox and air con part. unscrewed the plastic hoses from the core (4 screws in each) slid the core out the side. slid the new one in , put some silicone gasket round the silicon o rings and screwed the plasic hoses back on. DASH not touched. might just be that all is wrong with yours is those silicon seals either way if you can get the 300zx one its a quicker way of fitting

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when we have heater core leaks at work, they generally try and just dry the carpet first! hot air gun and a bit bit of deodouriser for example... it's alot easier than replacing the carpet especially if you have just had the pleasure of removing the dash!

i'd say dry it and see how it goes... should be sweet!

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Mine did the same thing about a year ago, and had it bypassed. Now I have bought a replacement core to go in and will, eventually, one day, maybe this centry, pull my finger out and look at whacking it into my stagea. But I really dont want to take apart the whole dash to, so going to look at accessing it through removing the glove box and trying that angle, mainly because I have a front passenger side airbag, and dont really want that going off at all :D

Waiting for a copy of FAST so I can try to firgure out how big a job it is going to be.

Good luck with yours!

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