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i took the heater box out of the 57 3100 truck to do a restore on it and my heater core in it one of the outlets is damaged and the core needs to be replaced but from what i can see and tell the heater core is round and i have looked in all of the truck books tht i can think of and im not seeing access to a replacement is there no where to get a repro new round heater core??? in a 57 3100 tuck its a standard heater by the way.

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Cruising in the Passing Lane
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Carter has it here, 57 was the last year for that heater

Bill


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"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
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thank you i see that they havethe core but it says you got to take each piece and silder it together to your exsisting copper heater hose tubes thats why i got to repalce my unit is my copper tubes are shot any other suggestions on what i could do??/

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fake it with plumbing copper tube - check with a radiator shop - find another used core to get better tubes from ohwell

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics

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