505 coolant on the passanger floor and a 504 comes home today!

[rickcjmc]

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Well, yet another problem plagues my 505......yesterday on the way to work, the cabin filled with steam. First thought was heater core but after some searching here, I am wondering if maybe the heater control valve may have left the building. I will be crawling under the dash in the next couple days to investigate. I did manage to find a couple listings for heater cores still available out there in the world so I thought i'd share them with the rest of the forum.

nissens p/n 72940 thru rockauto.com still available

valeo p/n 883674 still listed at rockauto but currently back ordered

On another note, I am dragging home a 73 504 sedan (gas automatique) today, fellow was selling it for scrap locally so I have to go save another one! Said it was a runner but poorly, found a snapped bolt on the intake manifold and stopped there. We'll see if we can get it back on the road again.

Rabin, do we have a central repository for p/n info we dig up?

take care all!!

Rick of Orphan Acres in St Paul Oregon.

[billbranch]

Rick,

The 505 heater core is the easiest to R&R in the automotive world.

Drop/remove the glove box door, and the end of it is exposed. It pulls straight out to the right side.

Everything should be so simple.

Bill

[rickcjmc]

Thanks Bill!

Turns out the heater control valve is the culprit, luckily I have my buddy who lives and breathes 505's, he gave me another core and valve, and a working blower too and diode. Good thing too as its 28 degrees today! Now who know show to work on oil fired furnaces cause mine just quite!!

Cheers all!