94 ZJ Heater Core

[Jason W.]

To do myself or not, how big of a bitch is it!
My fathers 94 ZJ is leaking from heater core, debating on doing it myself.. Suggestions...

 

[GotWood]

Never done a ZJ but I've done plenty of XJ's. Look it up on YouTube and go for it.

 

[BigClay]

Its a bitch but you can dooooo iiiiiiiiit!!

 

[ncpartsguy]

If you end up with leftover hardware, you've done it right!

 

[CasterTroy]

I'm moving Ben saturday. If we get done by 1 or 2 I can help when I roll back thru

 

[Jody Treadway]

Give me a call tomorrow if need be. I've done literally hundreds of them.
The dash has to get unbolted a laid back across the front seats.
Then unhook the ac and heater hoses from the firewall. A few nuts under the hood hold the HVAC box to the firewall.
Remove HVAC box from inside and the heater core is on top, held in with a few Phillips screws.
Not a hard job at all just time consuming.

 

[Chris_Keziah]

Wanna bring it to the house?

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[grapehead]

Get a good brand part. My buddy had to do his mom's twice.

 

[Jason W.]

I am assuming I would lose all the ac freon, is this correct?

I may attempt to do it here at the house during the week next week

 

[a_kelley]

Yes, requires evac and recharge afterwards. I've got the AC gauges and pump, I'm pretty close by to nebo..

@Jody Treadway .. also needs column dropped down, right? I'm 99% the WJ's had to lower column, zj pretty similar.

Or bypass it till it cools off and do it in cooler weather

 

[Jason W.]

He has allready bypassed it,

 

[Jason W.]

Welllllll... Halfway done!

 

[anvilrubi]

Patience of a Jedi you must have.

 

[Jason W.]

It is by no means that hard, just extremely time consuming. Between @josh$$ and I we probably have been working on it about 6 hts so far.

 

[C.Berry]

I've done it on 2 zjs and i say this, 10 hours has never sucked so bad! A 98 Kia Sportage takes the cake for me tho had to take steering wheel out and disco frame for dash... 18 hours for Kia

 

[Jason W.]

It is complete! will never do another for less than 1,000$

 

[Jason W.]

We also put new unit bearings, track bar and steering stabilizer on the front, he is gonna be one happy fella

 

[CasterTroy]

We also put new unit bearings, track bar and steering stabilizer on the front, he is gonna be one happy fella

So you've retired from forklift mechanic and opened up a business as a Jeep mechanic I see

 

[Jason W.]

Damn sure feels like it! Aint even getting paid!