[V8] Antifreeze Sauna

[Angie Olson]

I replaced the blower on my 1990 V8 last winter after removing the air box
from under the cowl. I did not remove the dash. Maybe I should have though
because working around it was tough. I'm Not sure if I got the colored
vacuum hoses reconnected correctly, I lost my notes. My middle vents don't
blow much air. If anyone has the color scheme memorized, please let me know.
I was also glad that I did not have to crack the air box to replace the
blower. I did consider doing the heater core as preventative work but
decided not to. 

I need to do the front struts, timing belt and water pump jobs soon and am
glad to have some saved instructions from this threads helpful if not
deranged contributors.

My Audi's have been off the road too long now. I've been driving the '99
Merc which is nice but a bit sedate.

Oly

1990 V8Q - out for struts, timing belt, etc.
1994 S4 - out for timing belt, fan, clutch master cyl, broken throttle
linkage.

2005 Passat GLS Wagon MAMA'S DD
1999 E320 4Matic Wagon my DD for now

On 7/14/10 4:51 PM, "NIck Miller" <chance9121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be my vote.  Bypass the heater core and not worry about it.
> ALthough, in ND, that would pretty much shut that car down for the winter.
> 
> 
> Hey, while you are in  there taking out the dash, you might as well swap in
> White S6 gauge faces anyway.  And you could also recover the dash in
> something like suede!   Ok, maybe not that far, but the S6 gauge face mod is
> awesome, and only would add 2 hours to the time, since you already need to
> remove the dash.   You probably never want to do that again.  Shit, I've
> done it like 3 times now.
> 
> ~Nick
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Mark Kalbskopf wrote:
>>> Do I have a broken heater core and how do I go about fixing it.
>> 
>> When my V8 spit steam out the vents a few months ago, I feared it
>> was the heater core, but it turned out to be the hot water valve.
>> So you may get lucky.
>> 
>> The fix was is easy -- just write a check.
>> 
>> On the 200 TQA a year or so ago, it was the heater core. That was
>> fixed with a short piece of heater hose to bypass the heater core.
>> 
>> --
>> Kent McLean
>> 1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
>> 1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
>> 1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
>> gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"
>> 
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