2000 Crew Cab Dually “Waylon”

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JSlezak83

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Looks like you just roll it out of the way? I’m sure it’s just that easy too.

I’m imagining I’ll need to pull the seats and center console for room to work. I think as soon as go to move that dash, it’s going to crumble. It has a nice molded cover, but the defrost vents are in bad shape, and when I put the double din radio in, the top structure under the cover is severely cracked.

Seems like a good reason to practice on some junkyard gems.
 

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Removal of seats and console is not needed. I didn’t when swapping from a 98 dash to a 95 dash. Though, if you want to, I think it would make the process easier, since these dashes are kinda heavy. You are going to want another person to help carry the thing in and out of your truck and the donor truck.
 

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That's nonsense. Replacing the heater core in our trucks is easy! It's 6 or 7 screws, and hose clamps.
 

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Looks like you just roll it out of the way? I’m sure it’s just that easy too.

I’m imagining I’ll need to pull the seats and center console for room to work. I think as soon as go to move that dash, it’s going to crumble. It has a nice molded cover, but the defrost vents are in bad shape, and when I put the double din radio in, the top structure under the cover is severely cracked.

Seems like a good reason to practice on some junkyard gems.
I would agree on good practice on a yard vehicle, and my defrost vents weren't bad, but all three screw positions were broke off, so I just made some supporting brackets and screwed them into place to help prevent it happening again. LmC used to sell the same thing at one point.

And another note, when rolling the dash back, leave the seats in, and remove the center console, and remove the steering column completely. And once the dash is disconnected, just roll it onto the seats. It should give you the room to replace the heater core.

Or, another thing that I do on a lot of vehicles, is take the passenger side of the dash, once all of the bolts and connectors needed are removed, just slide the dash back just enough to pull the passenger side of the dash back onto the seat. And that will give you tons of room, and it's a little easier if you're doing it by yourself
 

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There is one screw next to the firewall on the backside of the cover that's kind of a pain to remove and replace, I think I left it out last time. The other trick is that the cover takes some finesse to get in and out without breaking it. The first time I replaced the heater core, I did ok. The second time I cracked a chunk out, so I took the cover from my dad's old 96 before he sold it.

The foam on my firewall doesn't seal very well around the tubes that pass through, so I put a piece of split heater hose one or both and then put duct seal (bar of grey stuff from the electrical dept) around them on the engine compartment side.
 

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When I did the core in the wife's Envoy it came with new foam. Gotta love AC Delco.
 
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