[V6-12v] heater core?

[Mike LaRosa]

Sounds like the heater core is leaking....


Not 100% sure by your description, but...  if you open
the hood, take of the plastic cover off where the
wipers are there is a black box about a foot square.

This is your heater box, yes the heater core is inside
that.

Your talking about a $100 for a new heater core and
the valve.

It's a 6-8 project to do... some caveats are the the
hoses under the dash, and getting all the flaps
correct when you split the box to swap the heater
core.

Mike,
93 100 csqw,  did this last year...






--- "quattrorunner at earthlink.net"
<quattrorunner at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I have a 97 a6 avant and have had a strange leak of
> some sticky substance
> under what appeared to be the transaxle. I couldn't
> understand the
> stickyness but thought it may be from the trans as
> it has leaked in the
> past. Anyway that has been for about a hear or so.
> After having a small
> coolant leak for about two weeks now, I thought it a
> good idea to
> investigate. It was coming from the area where the
> heater hoses go to the
> core area. At the plastic 90 degree turn out of the
> black box. I don't have
> the bently so I don't know what this box is but I
> found the sticky
> substance is from the seam there. The seam was up
> against the rubber air
> release valve behind the heater valve. It appears to
> be a hole full of the
> sticky stuff. My guess is that this stuff is glue
> for the seams of the
> core? But I don't know. Is this black box that the
> heater hoses enter the
> heater core or is the core inside it? And can I
> change it from outside the
> car or under the dash? Thanks, BA
> 
> 
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> 
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