What have you done to your square lately??

[Rustisbest]

I just kept the wiring to the relay, blower motor and the resistor. I cut out everything else back to their main harnesses, put heatshrink on the ends and taped them back in. Kept the plugs and wiring for "just in case"

Also if you bought the fiberglass box theres no hole for the resistor so you can put it wherever you want as long as its got a little airflow. I put mine up top and relocated the vacuum ball inside on top of the heater box.

Some of this is ignition box and coil wiring but came out decent enough.

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[WFarm]

I just kept the wiring to the relay, blower motor and the resistor. I cut out everything else back to their main harnesses, put heatshrink on the ends and taped them back in. Kept the plugs and wiring for "just in case"

Also if you bought the fiberglass box theres no hole for the resistor so you can put it wherever you want as long as its got a little airflow. I put mine up top and relocated the vacuum ball inside on top of the heater box.

Some of this is ignition box and coil wiring but came out decent enough.

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That looks great! Really like that sleeving. Thanks for the info, realized I need to remove the resistor from the old evaporator box.

That is the same cover I bought too, btw.

 

[hoagster]

Painless sleeving looks like! That is what I used to re-loom all my harnesses.

 

[WFarm]

And so it begins…..

Noticed today that as soon as I started loosening the heater hose hose clamp it started to drip. Now I wonder how it ever didn’t drip!!

So now I need to replace the heater core. Not looking forward to it, as I think the first thing that came down the assembly line was the heater core, and GM built a truck around it, lol.

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[Ricko1966]

Well, I had a flash of inspiration on the way in regarding the vacuum for the distributor advance at WOT. When using manifold vacuum, it disappears. Hmmm. What happens if you put a check valve in ?

So, I tried it. Had to reinstall the valve as I had it backwards the 1st time.

Interesting - it did not have the TA DA !!! effect at WOT I thought it would. It probably is a little better, and seems to be eliminating to puff of something ( raw fuel , maybe ? ) I was seeing out the tail pipe in car headlights at night.

Testing will continue.

Test it,engine hot,going up a long hill,preferably pulling a trailer. If your check valve works,your vacuum advance can works,your centrifugal advance works,total is set correctly,you should be rewarded with tons of piston and rod bearing destroying predetonation. The reason for hooking the vacuum advance to manifold or ported vacuum is the timing drops out under heavy load to prevent detonation. If they wanted vacuum advance to rise with engine speed and not retard with throttle opening,they'd have used venturi vacuum,not ported or manifold vacuum. They used to do that about 100 years ago,venturi vacuum and manifold vacuum working at the same time. I think Ford called it loadomatic ignition. Kicker is you still had to have the manifold vacuum so ignition would retard in high load situations. I found an article that explains all this.

https://www.1956-ford.com/images1956fordengstransaxles/ford-load-o-matic-distributor.pdf

 

[WFarm]

Removed the old heater core. I don’t usually time myself when doing things, but probably because I was dreading this particular task I made note of when I started. Turns out the job wasn’t that bad at all. Had the heater box out of the truck in 45 minutes, and had the heater core out and on the bench in another 15 minutes. Nothing else was broken so should be good to go tomorrow when O’Reilly will have the new core.

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[Chevrolado]

I was about to say, I think "heater core" jobs are universally spoken about being the worst. But from what I've seen so far under these dashes - its all hanging right there and somewhat easy to get to. I think its the later model trucks (90's plus) that maybe start to get more difficult when you start adding airbags and modern HVAC tech.. hah.

Looks good man! Lookin forward to seeing a fresh core going back in.

 

[DoubleDingo]

Removed the old heater core. I don’t usually time myself when doing things, but probably because I was dreading this particular task I made note of when I started. Turns out the job wasn’t that bad at all. Had the heater box out of the truck in 45 minutes, and had the heater core out and on the bench in another 15 minutes. Nothing else was broken so should be good to go tomorrow when O’Reilly will have the new core.

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I bought a new heater core around Christmas, it's on my to-do list along with many other things going on.

 

[YakkoWarner]

The most recent thing I've done with my square is arrange to get it towed.....again. I'm pretty sure it is simply cursed at this point. A car wash with holy water might be the next step....or it might just dissolve away.

 

[Ricko1966]

I was about to say, I think "heater core" jobs are universally spoken about being the worst. But from what I've seen so far under these dashes - its all hanging right there and somewhat easy to get to. I think its the later model trucks (90's plus) that maybe start to get more difficult when you start adding airbags and modern HVAC tech.. hah.

Looks good man! Lookin forward to seeing a fresh core going back in.

2nd generation Taurus,Nissan trucks,Chrysler town and country,and actually a bunch of others,cars you have to remove the entire dash. Just set them on fire and call your insurance company.

 

[Blue Ox]

I was about to say, I think "heater core" jobs are universally spoken about being the worst. But from what I've seen so far under these dashes - its all hanging right there and somewhat easy to get to. I think its the later model trucks (90's plus) that maybe start to get more difficult when you start adding airbags and modern HVAC tech.. hah.

Most people speak as if heater cores are apocalyptic, but I'd agree that the GMs of the era are nowhere near that bad. For me, the biggest issue is them bolting it through from the other side. The Volvo I had was an absolute horror by comparison.

 

[bucket]

2nd generation Taurus,Nissan trucks,Chrysler town and country,and actually a bunch of others,cars you have to remove the entire dash. Just set them on fire and call your insurance company.

I've had literally hundreds of '96+ Chrysler minivan dashboards out. I think I had it down to 4.5 hours, including yanking the HVAC box and "fitting" aftermarket evaporators and then putting it all back together.

 

[Catbox]

We moved a bunch of my sons large items out of storage and into his new house.
Truck Gang stuff.
What is fun is we just parked randomly.
Instead it looks like we organized ourselves in order of height.

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[Radiohead]

We moved a bunch of my sons large items out of storage and into his new house.
Truck Gang stuff.
What is fun is we just parked randomly.
Instead it looks like we organized ourselves in order of height.

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I see the two I won't be loading/unloading.... even if they're parked in the white zone, which is for loading and unloading only.

 

[78C10BigTen]

We moved a bunch of my sons large items out of storage and into his new house.
Truck Gang stuff.
What is fun is we just parked randomly.
Instead it looks like we organized ourselves in order of height.

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Burb looks like it has a drivers side lean...