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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Beautiful BC, Canada, eh?!
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Re: SkinnyG's '61 Apache
I now have a heater core.
Note: ROCK AUTO DOES NOT SELL ONE THAT FITS 60-63 I ordered what I thought was the right one, and they say is the right one, but it is not. Both hoses exit up top, whereas a 60-63 needs to have one exit down low. They are aluminum. I ended up cutting the top tube off and plugging the hole, then drilling a new hole and TIG welding the old feed tube in the correct place. The only leak I had was where the ground arced a hold into one of the cooling tubes. Which I TIG'd closed (100hz focused the arc beautifully). With this core, I cannot actually adjust or turn off the heat. Not likely a problem, as I can balance it with window and/or fan. Still ok, too, as an LS needs to have coolant flow between the heater hoses. Loaded the truck for a dump run but when I went to start it, the fuel pump relay feed wire had actually lost contact, so I had to re-crimp that. Dump run tomorrow.
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