Heater Core Saga, Day 3. With new confidence after seeing Hal's heater core box outside of a car, I got started back on the Passat this morning. With everything loose except for the rear clips, I was still having a lot of trouble getting the box to move. Hal said I should be able to get all but one clip off, then I could just muscle it off the last clip would pop off by itself. I couldn't find the top clip on the back . . . so I figured if you can pop one clip, you can probably pop two, so I borrowed a move from Smelly Cat (I am in the "triangle" after all).
I grabbed the heater core box with a ninja death grip and shouted "By the powers of Mordar, release thy heater core box" and gave it a super yank . . .
clips bounced off the firewall and I was holding a newly freed heater core box in my hands . . . well, it wasn't completely free . . . it has several wires clipped to it with wire ties, but for all practical purposes, I have reached the halfway point in this project! Wooo Hooo!!!!
The good news is, I made it to the halfway point without breaking ANYTHING! Now its a "simple" matter of cleaing all the goo the old foam and antifreeze created out of the box, putting the new core and foam in the box and putting it all back together. Sounds easy enough doesn't it?
