Here's another one of those problems that pops up pretty often. Maybe it's time I started asking some questions of my own.
There are plans in the future to pull my heater and restore it but for now I’ve been pleasuring myself be driving my truck. And since I haven’t seen any signs of leakage from the heater core when I did have the water flowing to it, I haven’t been to worried about it. Other than the fact that the capillary tube is missing and I just have to run it on full flow, I’ve used it through two winters and it works just fine. So I haven’t had my heater apart and don’t yet know what sort of surprises await me.
The only pictures of the heater core that I have in my reverence files show only the one surface of the unit when the cover is removed. It simply looks like a standard construction for a rectangular section of copper radiator core that is capped on both ends with brass tanks. In other words it’s just a mini radiator, is my assumption correct?
So what’s the big deal with unsoldering the tanks and mounting them to a brand new section of core material?? That’s almost an every day task in any decent sized radiator shop. Now if your talking about the round heater cores then I can see where there is a problem but to re-core the Deluxe heater should be pretty straight forward, no???
If any one has a six dimensional photo documentation (Woddy) of the Deluxe core when they restored their Deluxe heater, I’d really like to see it just so I can begin to work on what I might run in to down the line. Cuz if the core does need service I might be able find a shop that can get the core material ordered now.
By the way, has anyone measured the dimensions of the core, i.e., length, width, thickness and number of rows????ß nervous index finger!
Thanks
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 08/16/2008 2:15 PM.
