My Search for a Clean VR6!

[VR28LT]

The coolant passes through the heatercore, that also explains why your windscreen fogs upits a bitch of a job if you wanna have a crack at it

[thestu]

The coolant passes through the heatercore, that also explains why your windscreen fogs upits a bitch of a job if you wanna have a crack at it

I did it in 3 hours and had never touched a mk3 in my life...you will be fine!

[Ben J]

Yeah the heatercore and the cooling system are connected, hot coolant goes through the heatercore and heats it up (thats a complete guess so that may be wrong, but it makes sence in my mind. Hah)

There are two hoses that run to it in the engine bay. One off the head and another one from something else (cant remember). Its like in the middle of the engine bay, you'll see two coolant hoses running to the firewall. To bypass it for the time being I think you would just need to disconnect those hoses, and attach them too each other.

[jono0309]

Thats exactly what I thought but I am such a nooooob. haha
Thanks guys, I am going to give this a go haha I might need some help...might recruit someone! Cheers

[VR28LT]

I did it in 3 hours and had never touched a mk3 in my life...you will be fine!

whether it takes 3 hours or 3 days its still a bitch of a job

[jono0309]

Might ring around today and see how much heatercores are and the availability..cheers

[VR28LT]

mate if you need to drive it for a while before you rip out the heater core get yourself a U shape pipe and bypass the heater , just make sure there are no kinks in the hose

[jono0309]

Thanks what I am planning on doing because getting a heatercore immediately could prove to be difficult, plus I got a **** load of Uni stuff on at the moment and all I wanna do is work on the car! haha

---------- Post added 11-11-2011 at 10:20 AM ---------- Previous post was 10-11-2011 at 09:59 AM ----------

Yesterday:
Pulled out most of the dash board apart from the actual dash and windscreen wipers.
Installed new extractors
Ordered new heatercore.

Pics soon.

[DubSteve]

you dont need a heater coore right now, you only need it for winter.