I just got done replacing the front fuel tank in my truck. It was a disaster. Finally get the truck done and take it for a drive and I see the ****** winshield only above where the heater core sits. Park truck and next morning in the garage there is a one foot puddle of coolant by the passenger tire, no coolant anywhere else and it looks like it was leaking from the two nipples of the core into the engine bay. It's wet under them anyways.
So I order a new motorcraft core and replace it, but this one that I pulled out except for one row of fins looks fine. It does have some gouges from knives cutting off old heater hose from it, so I don't know if it's cracked there. I'd like to test it to make sure it doesn't leak, or if it does on the nipples find out where and see if I could get a hose over it far enough to still have it be a potential replacement for one of my other three trucks as these things are over 100$..
What would you guys do to test this thing? Just compressed air to a certain psi? I'm just not sure why it was leaking in the truck to begin with after looking at it, surely it wasn't just bad heater hoses but at least I'll be all new stuff in this truck.
So I order a new motorcraft core and replace it, but this one that I pulled out except for one row of fins looks fine. It does have some gouges from knives cutting off old heater hose from it, so I don't know if it's cracked there. I'd like to test it to make sure it doesn't leak, or if it does on the nipples find out where and see if I could get a hose over it far enough to still have it be a potential replacement for one of my other three trucks as these things are over 100$..
What would you guys do to test this thing? Just compressed air to a certain psi? I'm just not sure why it was leaking in the truck to begin with after looking at it, surely it wasn't just bad heater hoses but at least I'll be all new stuff in this truck.
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