Thread: oil level sensor

i did mine and it wasn't the leak, it was my hose on the firewall leaking. it took 2 hours or so, in and out. my floor was dry, but the windshield was fogging up all the time.

you need the console out, and the lower part of the dash, then get to taking out every last little screw you see on the black box, theres a few layers to the core, and theres a screw holding the 2 pipes to the fire wall as well, you need to get that from the inside as well.

you will be on your back jumping from pass side to driver side over and over, its no fun to be honest, but better then paying for it to be done.


and blow out the core before you take it out, by taking both hoses off the engine, and blow though one, this will keep from spilling more coolant inside the car.

the rug, you'll want to dry it up as best you can, shop vac it lift it up put some sticks under it to hold it up, let a fan blow on it, so it hits the foam.

if it gets that moldy smell baking soda helps kill that, just use a shop vac to suck it up, baking soda can kill a house vac. or hit the car wash and use their vac.

I'm not fortunate enough for it to be the heater hose leaking into the car. I was just around those hoses today while replacing my leaking coolant elbows for the third time in as many years.

I understand the under dash aspect of this job. I've replaced heater cores before. Plus I found and printed out the instructions somebody had posted on this website. My issue is removing the console without breaking it. What's the trick(s) to removing the console and putting it back in?

I think the tough part will be getting to the heater core, rather than replacing it at the box.

Am I on to something?

Also I am pricing a replacement heater core. The Spectra Premium is $63 at NAPA while O-Reilly's sells a Murray brand for $50. I wonder if these two are the same under different names because both have similar part numbers.

The Spectra number is 99329 while the Murray number is 399329. Take the 3 off the Murray number and it's the same as the Spectra Premium.

I should not go cheap on the new core since it's a long task changing it out.

that duct runs under the rug and to under the front seats, its the vent that blows air to the back seats, nothing holds it but where its sits inside the box.

if you look from under the back side of the seat, you will see the end of that duct. one on each side. you can kinda rip it out, i did, it all went back easier then it came apart.