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I have just discovered i have coolant leaking from under my dash around the heater area. Does this mean my heater core is busted and i need go through the dash removal process that i have read in other threads.

Is there an easy fix or an alternative to all of this?

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I have just discovered i have coolant leaking from under my dash around the heater area. Does this mean my heater core is busted and i need go through the dash removal process that i have read in other threads.

Is there an easy fix or an alternative to all of this?

ive read somewhere that it can be done by removing the AC unit and not the whole dash, requiring an AC regas, maybe someone can confirm this. You definitely need a new core. i bought mine from here when I did my R33, check compatability though with Stageas.

http://www.ttzed.com/products/products_det...g&do=detail

that was a whole dash job

there are people who have removed the core on a R33 Skyline (auto only from what I understand) via the glovebox; seems only half the dash gets pulled out.

Ive had 2 quotes to do mine, both around $500 in labour plus new core

might be a cold winter for me =(

Mine had the core replaced just before I bought it, and if you go and ask Regan nicely, he may show you the photo's :)

But, at the end of the day, I have heard a lot about people saying it can be done with half the dash removed, but I have never seen it done. Just suck it up and rip the dash out Morgan. There is nothing technical about it, but it is a fairly long and arduous task :yes:

Dale - I was hoping to just pull out half the dash - the pics of the full dash removal are scary! But from the look of it i will give it a go myself in a couple of weeks.

I just have bad memorys of pulling part of the dash out of my XR6 falcon and putting it back to find a few dash lights not working so repeating the process three times!!

Why cant the heater break in the middle of summer rather than the beginning of the cold.

had the same problem few months back its due to jap land not using alot of antifreeze so the heater core falls to pieces. I ordered a new one and got it fitted without a dash out job just removed the glove box and the ac matrix then got the heater matrix out from behined the radio. took about 3hrs. still need to empty an re gas the ac tho!

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