Yay Heater Core :(

millermagic · 03-04-2010, 10:24 AM

Well my car has reached new heights of leakage!

The heat stopped working reliably over the past few months. Some days I will get heat and other days I'll get nothing.

There is a correlation, though. If the heat isn't working, the heater core isn't leaking.

I will say this, when the heat works the coolant comes in the cabin through the vents or sometimes ends up on the floor. This masks the odors coming from all of the other leaking stuff and the brake cleaner / WD40 / PB blaster I use monthly when all of the doors stop working! For instance, this morning on my way to work the heat wasn't working

but I could smell the wonderful smell of power steering fluid ... the power steering pump had another fit where it expelled all of the fluid into the engine compartment and then burns off of the header for a while! I had to maneuver my car on the muddy / frozen mud lawn onto the driveway with no power steering this morning.

So, on my way home today I'll have to pick up some PS fluid along with the coolant.

For the past week or so - bar today - the heat has been working great! I decided to check the coolant this morning (hadn't done so in a week) and the reserve tank was bone dry. So, over the past 7 days I've leaked about a gallon of coolant!

So who thinks this can be fixed with some of the handy man's secret weapon?

Yay Ford Taurus

ffvulcanpowah · 03-04-2010, 10:57 AM

Yay YOUR Ford Taurus. Mine has way more miles, and doesnt have near the problems that your car has.

Get rid of the car if it is that big of a sh!t heap, FIX it, or maybe run it in a LeMons race. You can be the RRRR part II. Rickety Red Rustbucket Revolucion!

millermagic · 03-05-2010, 07:01 AM

There's no fixing such a rusty vehicle. If I were to try to fix the heater core, I'd have 5 other things break off from the rust. Then the next day, the strut towers would go through the deck lid.

Oh, and today the door wouldn't shut and I broke the seatbelt.

Can I drive this hunk o junk POS into a tree yet?

risoworker · 03-05-2010, 07:06 AM

that car has it's share of problems. how many miles are on it?

millermagic · 03-05-2010, 07:38 AM

Somewhere around 70,500

firespirit · 03-05-2010, 08:17 AM

Wow. Is it trade-in time?

millermagic · 03-05-2010, 08:42 AM

Well the plan is to get something else if I ever get a job.

SilverThunder · 03-05-2010, 09:29 AM

Yeah that car just needs to go...

ffvulcanpowah · 03-05-2010, 12:30 PM

QUOTE (Millermagic @ Mar 5 2010, 07:01 AM)

Quote:

Can I drive this hunk o junk POS into a tree yet?[/b]

Yes. About a year too late, apparently.

Better yet, push it off of a Ferry boat. Once it sinks, it will be a new habitat for marine wildlife and coral. DOOOO IT.

Bull Geek · 03-05-2010, 05:29 PM

That sucks about the car Mike. Rust was not kind to your 01 :\

03-04-2010, 10:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
millermagic Senior Member Member Number: 4131 Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York State Visit: My Garage Posts: 7,373 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 0	Well my car has reached new heights of leakage! The heat stopped working reliably over the past few months. Some days I will get heat and other days I'll get nothing. There is a correlation, though. If the heat isn't working, the heater core isn't leaking. I will say this, when the heat works the coolant comes in the cabin through the vents or sometimes ends up on the floor. This masks the odors coming from all of the other leaking stuff and the brake cleaner / WD40 / PB blaster I use monthly when all of the doors stop working! For instance, this morning on my way to work the heat wasn't working but I could smell the wonderful smell of power steering fluid ... the power steering pump had another fit where it expelled all of the fluid into the engine compartment and then burns off of the header for a while! I had to maneuver my car on the muddy / frozen mud lawn onto the driveway with no power steering this morning. So, on my way home today I'll have to pick up some PS fluid along with the coolant. For the past week or so - bar today - the heat has been working great! I decided to check the coolant this morning (hadn't done so in a week) and the reserve tank was bone dry. So, over the past 7 days I've leaked about a gallon of coolant! So who thinks this can be fixed with some of the handy man's secret weapon? Yay Ford Taurus __________________ I'd rather have a rustbucket than a rice rocket!

03-04-2010, 10:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
ffvulcanpowah Senior Member Member Number: 2120 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Houston, Texas Drives: 2000 Taurus SE / 3.0 Vulcan FFV / AX4Stupid Visit: My Garage Posts: 7,396 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 0	Yay YOUR Ford Taurus. Mine has way more miles, and doesnt have near the problems that your car has. Get rid of the car if it is that big of a sh!t heap, FIX it, or maybe run it in a LeMons race. You can be the RRRR part II. Rickety Red Rustbucket Revolucion! __________________ "YOU WILL ALL BOW DOWN TO MY AWESOME SHO THAT IS REALLY JUST A TAURUS WITH FIDDLY BITS AND TWO MORE CYLINDERS!!!11ONE" -Dan "If you got the lack of sense to mod a TAURUS you should be allowed to cut a hole in your hood. Let everyone see the extent of your madness" -Luke

03-05-2010, 07:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
millermagic Senior Member Member Number: 4131 Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York State Visit: My Garage Posts: 7,373 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 0	There's no fixing such a rusty vehicle. If I were to try to fix the heater core, I'd have 5 other things break off from the rust. Then the next day, the strut towers would go through the deck lid. Oh, and today the door wouldn't shut and I broke the seatbelt. Can I drive this hunk o junk POS into a tree yet? __________________ I'd rather have a rustbucket than a rice rocket!

03-05-2010, 07:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
risoworker Senior Member Member Number: 4002 Join Date: Oct 2004 Visit: My Garage Posts: 1,186 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 7	that car has it's share of problems. how many miles are on it? __________________ In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti Men in blue putting greed in front of the badge... Thank you for your protection and your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good that I may have done, I'm so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I'm so very tired, but I go now to my rest at peace. I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.

03-05-2010, 07:38 AM	#5 (permalink)
millermagic Senior Member Member Number: 4131 Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York State Visit: My Garage Posts: 7,373 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 0	Somewhere around 70,500 __________________ I'd rather have a rustbucket than a rice rocket!

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03-05-2010, 08:17 AM	#6 (permalink)
firespirit Senior Member Member Number: 1387 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Michigan City, IN Drives: 1997 Ford Taurus GL Visit: My Garage Posts: 8,610 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 15	Wow. Is it trade-in time? __________________ 97 Ford Taurus :://:: 2001 Mercury Sable

03-05-2010, 08:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
millermagic Senior Member Member Number: 4131 Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York State Visit: My Garage Posts: 7,373 Trader Score: 0 reviews Rep Power: 0	Well the plan is to get something else if I ever get a job. __________________ I'd rather have a rustbucket than a rice rocket!

03-05-2010, 09:29 AM	#8 (permalink)
SilverThunder Senior Member Member Number: 2800 Join Date: Apr 2004 Visit: My Garage Posts: 4,069 Trader Score: 1 reviews Rep Power: 0	Yeah that car just needs to go... __________________ Scum: A pejorative term for somebody of low moral standards, The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.

03-05-2010, 05:29 PM	#10 (permalink)
Bull Geek Senior Member Member Number: 1771 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Columbia, SC Drives: 2000 Ford Taurus SEL (Silver Frost) DOHC Visit: My Garage Posts: 11,489 Trader Score: 2 reviews Rep Power: 18	That sucks about the car Mike. Rust was not kind to your 01 :\ __________________ --Nick M. \| Owner of a Non-Fleet Bull! --TS 2000 Ford Taurus SEL \| DOHC/AX4N \| 143K--XCal tuned by SHOZ123-- --ATL car \| 3/9/00