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well, maybe a job well done lol. there are a couple things that have me mind bogged as i'm putting it all back together this evening. for one ford used three differant types of bolt/screws. one is used quite a bit and i think i might have used them in place of one of the others. i on;ty have three of the more popular ones left and about 20 of the other. i'm not sure where i went wrong. maybe i should have kept all my bolt/screws together with the part they belonged to. also i can't find the cords that connect into the air bag. i pulled it all apart again and i still cant find them.
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so i took my truck to a local auto hobby shop (it's only open for 8 hours a day). i got in there and started talking to the master mechanic about what iam having to do. he strait "recommended" to me that i should now take on this task, that i should just count my losses and take it to a professional. he even told me he would never do another heater core replacement again. so i left, parked my truck in a very good friends drive way and started to rip the dash apart. smooth going at first, you know 700* bolts per plastic piece lol. after about 8-9 hours, and nearly a whole pack of smokes, i have the dash completely off. there was nothing left in but my steering wheel. getting the top off of the heater core housing unit was another core all in it's own. to skip ahead a bit i pulled the old heater core out, put the new one in, hook up the hoses out side, and put the lid back on. i have half the dash back on now and then it started to snow. called it quits for night. 2 days in and i have half of a dash lol
Does anyone know of a manual showing how to remove the dash or can give some pointers? I cannot find what is holding the area around the passenger airbag. My Haynes only list the dash panels and not the dash itself. I am also trying to remplace the heater core in a 1997 F150.
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