Searching for Heater core removal information for 56 Super

[JohnD1956]

Please help. The manual does not appear to have a section on removing the core from the cowl?

I was unable to define a proper search to bring up any previous threads here which covered this topic. If someone could assist with how to use the search engine, to see if this was already covered, I would really appreciate it.

Otherwise if anyone has experience, can you tell me if the fender absolutely has to come off? And separately, is this a two person job to unbolt the core, needing someone both inside and outside at the same time?

Thank you

[rmartens]

John:

I replaced the heater core in my '56 Century 17-18 years ago. I can't remember how I did it except to say I <span style="text-decoration: underline">did not </span>remove the fender and I did the task <span style="text-decoration: underline">single-handedly</span>.

It wasn't easy, but I don't think I had to do anything especially innovative to get it done--no tricks to pass along-no unique tools to recommend-sorry.

Rick

[JohnD1956]

Thanks for the reply Rick. I may try to start this tomorrow with the fender on. It gets awful cold riding around these parts in the fall.

[JohnD1956]

For those who want to know, removal was not too bad. 1.5 hrs till it was out of the car and that could have been a lot faster. The fender was not in the way once I removed the fan and the fan box from the fresh air plenum on the passengers side. All the bolts come out from the inside. First you have to take off the air door part of the heater with six bolts, three on each side, five of which were plainly visible. Then the last three holding the heater box to the cowl are under the air door part.

BTW, Thanks a lot to Budd for his site and pics he took. Here's a few of my own.

[JohnD1956]

Being held to a tight budget, I could not justify the cost to have the heater core plenum plasticoated. So I started a restoration just to find out I have to call it a refurbishment. This is due to a few small pin holes I found when blasting the part with my pressure blaster. I patched those with POR 15 patch. I'll post some pics of that tomorrow but first here are some pics of the fun I had working on this part.

[JohnD1956]

last two for now.