80 Chevy swb Quick Rebuild

[stoutguinness]

Did you remove the old heater core with the hood still attached? My heater core just started leaking yesterday and I'm going to be tearing into mine this weakend. Never replace a heater core before though and someone said you had to take the hood off. Any tips?

[lowerdtrucks]

Originally Posted by stoutguinness

Did you remove the old heater core with the hood still attached? My heater core just started leaking yesterday and I'm going to be tearing into mine this weakend. Never replace a heater core before though and someone said you had to take the hood off. Any tips?

It really isnt that hard. You don't have to remove the hood. To get to the bolts on the bottom of the outside it helps to remove the inner fender. I have a really long extension so i used that to remove the bolts under there without removing the inner fender. Whole job took about 2 hours.

[lowerdtrucks]

Time to strip this thing down for paint! While thats going on, it will get new upholstry.

[lowerdtrucks]

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[lowerdtrucks]

Originally Posted by lowerdtrucks

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sorry I apologize.

[lowerdtrucks]

Here is a pick of the seat. I had it done in ultra leather.




Also I was able to scavenge 2 salvage yards to find 1 complete set of interior trim pieces. I cleaned them all up and died them to match the ultra leather.


More to come!

[lowerdtrucks]

Here is the current state of the body work. Plans are to keep the original copper, but to add white tutone in the middle.

[stoutguinness]

Originally Posted by lowerdtrucks

It really isnt that hard. You don't have to remove the hood. To get to the bolts on the bottom of the outside it helps to remove the inner fender. I have a really long extension so i used that to remove the bolts under there without removing the inner fender. Whole job took about 2 hours.

Thanks for the info! I have plenty of extensions. I don't have time to even look at it until this weekend but it didn't look like a complicated thing so that's why I was confused when they were talking about removing the hood and inner fender haha.