[V6-12v] heater core?

[Nathan White]

I actually found removing the dash sections was fairly easy. Got to clean 
everything up. There was nothing really hard about the job, just takes a bit 
of time.

NW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike LaRosa" <mrmotoguzzi00 at yahoo.com>
To: "Nathan White" <natwhite at mnsi.net>; <V6-12v at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [V6-12v] heater core?


> OH MY GOD NATHAN!   I didn't take it that far...  i
> pulled the sides of the console back enough to pull
> the  rubber vents.  Yes it was a bitch to do, but I
> wasn't up for as much dissassembly as you :)
>
> I'm sure pulling that much out made it easy to do the
> rubber vents, but I tend to torture myself and not
> remove anymore than I have to :)
>
> but, either way will work :)
>
> the pictures of the box split in half is in exellent
> idea,  I did mine apart twice to get it right, a
> picture of one half removed with the flaps still
> attached is an excellent idea!
>
> Mike
>
>
> --- Nathan White <natwhite at mnsi.net> wrote:
>
>> This was my experience with an A6 heater core remove
>> and replace:
>>
>> http://forums.audiworld.com/a6100/msgs/59506.phtml
>>
>> NW
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike LaRosa" <mrmotoguzzi00 at yahoo.com>
>> To: <quattrorunner at earthlink.net>;
>> <v6-12v at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [V6-12v] heater core?
>>
>>
>> > 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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Check BA-design.com for your custom jewelry ideas
>>
>> >>
>> >>
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