The last one I changed took two days and a lot of beer and skinned knuckles. It was a 76 f250 not a 92. Guess ford listened huh?
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Pull the hoses, the glove box, the core cover, and the core. When you replace it, make sure the foam gasket is in place & that the hole that the pipes stick thru is filled with caulk or you'll get rain in the passenger floor. Copper-Coat gasket spray will make the hoses seal better & protect the pipes from corrosion.
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The heater core thing is one of the biggest pain in the butt things you'll do. Shortcuts don't work. Although I saw a guy who used a deime tool to cut an acces door to his. Screwed a couple of latches on it the cut peice and cauked up the seams with black silicon. Looked preaty good.
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Huh? I think it's one of the easiest repairs on the truck! Just a few screws and it falls out. Have you ever tried to do one on an '88-94 Chevy? The instructions include: "...recover the refrigerant and disconnect the air conditioner evaporator core". 
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Well they must have changed, because I did the '78 and it took every bit of half a day. I'm smelling coolant right now on my 93, but I hope it's just the slight leak from the heater hose under the hood and not the core, but that makes me feel a little better if i have to replace it.
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I Stand (sitting realy) Corrected. Only havin my ranger for a month now (got it off ebay) I looked, I touched, I took the sucker out just for the hell of it. 5 minutes tops. Clean out leafs n such (great ta have real heat now) and stck it back in. I wish I knew who it was that finally redesigned the thing cause I'd buy him a case.
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try it on an 89 tempo coupe. the &(*&)&^^ is in the #####er of the dash right on the hump. did it in one night a 12 pack and 2 pack of marlboro reds. when i took it out it had been quite some time i guess since the box was full of water. i did that then the trans quit. i semi fixed the trans and filled my rad up then relized a freeze pulg musta come loose in the 8 months it sat. so now the POS sits again. id love to get a ranger or a 5spd tempo to put my engine though.
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you know i had a red 2.3 lt 3spd auto 91 tempo lol.
pos died on train tracks most of the time and if id didnt you wer lucky. i hate tempos. i truly hate tempos. in about 5 months i turn 18 so then ill go to a factory and find a ranger somewhere that need a motor and has a 5spd and tear out my motor and comp for it. should plug right in for the most part. ill get the rwd model so i dont need anything speacial besides a starter flywheel and time. if that thing runs good then ill get a 2.9 block and start on a custom motor for my b2. then drop it in and start doing frame reinforcments and brake upgrades. then ill rebuild my old 2.9 to go into a 4wd auto ranger for my mom so i wont have to drive her to work when it snows lol.
btw my heater core is plugged up. alumiseal stopped my rad leak and my heat. thats some strong ##### im telling you.
pos died on train tracks most of the time and if id didnt you wer lucky. i hate tempos. i truly hate tempos. in about 5 months i turn 18 so then ill go to a factory and find a ranger somewhere that need a motor and has a 5spd and tear out my motor and comp for it. should plug right in for the most part. ill get the rwd model so i dont need anything speacial besides a starter flywheel and time. if that thing runs good then ill get a 2.9 block and start on a custom motor for my b2. then drop it in and start doing frame reinforcments and brake upgrades. then ill rebuild my old 2.9 to go into a 4wd auto ranger for my mom so i wont have to drive her to work when it snows lol.
btw my heater core is plugged up. alumiseal stopped my rad leak and my heat. thats some strong ##### im telling you.
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theres three good points to my turning 18 lol.
i can get a factory job to pay for this stuff (il be running a forklift according to my cus).
i can bye my own cigs.
and i can get gas treatment by myself (guy at autozone told me about that law. kinda sucks. i cant even buy my own gas treatment)...
i can get a factory job to pay for this stuff (il be running a forklift according to my cus).
i can bye my own cigs.
and i can get gas treatment by myself (guy at autozone told me about that law. kinda sucks. i cant even buy my own gas treatment)...
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