99-07 Ford Super Duty - Heater Core Replacement (Step-by-Step Guide)

[@hurleyrick2694]

Fantastic detailed instruction. Excellent video of each step with great narrative. Made my job a breeze. I never would have attempted the job with this video. The best by far of all available videos. Thank you for taking the time to do it right.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Seighme]

@@All4HimRacingVideos and I loved the DC talk at the end...

[@chester8420]

Awesome camera angles! I put vice grips on the heater hoses so I didn't have to drain the radiator. I used a oscillating saw to cut the aluminum heater hoses off the core from inside, and pulled them into the engine bay through the firewall. It made it super easy to disconnect the plastic quick fittings! Your truck is super clean. My truck has 550,000 farming miles and it had 1/4 inch of dirt on top of everything under the dash.

[@hpautostyle]

Hats off to people like you to take the time to make these videos 🙏🏼

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Good luck with your repair!

[@davidwitherspoon7419]

Had a local shop that wanted $1,300.00 to place a heater coil on one of my company trucks. Going to take home and replace it myself. Good video thanks for the insight.

[@johnbeckwith1361]

Best video for this I could find. I just replaced mine. 2000 F250 7.3 Tips: Use a 21mm open ended wrench as your quick disconnect tool. It fits perfectly and I had the space. You don't have to remove the Vacuum Actuator 9:53 . If you are handy, use your old heater core to make a U-shaped bypass line. The pipe is the same as 1/2" copper, cut at the right spot, solder it , easily install it for the summer using your factory quick connects...

[@multitoolish]

47 thousand people have watched this being Dec 16 2018. Anyone think this may be a sign of either Ford making trucks that last or, making heater cores that don't? I still love Ford and would drive nothing else, especially as far as trucks!! Thanks for the help! Great video

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

You are welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@davidbrogan606]

Well, my heater core lasted for 300,000 miles so I won't complain. It may have lasted longer if I had changed the coolant in a timely manner.

[@philiprubin6274]

Your step by step description is wonderful. Thank You. I cheated when installing the quick disconnect back on the heater core at the firewall. Using a 18MM deepwell socket with a couple of extensions, I was able to snap them in place(I sprayed the orings with WD40 to help them slip into place and not roll). The heater hoses slipped right on.Than using the 5/16 socket, I was able to reach the hose clamps all the way from the drivers side over the air cleaner hose (Using about 30" of 1/4" socket extensions)

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Nice cheat! Hope it helps save someone else some time!

[@Seighme]

Very detailed, very easy to follow and even easy to skip ahead to where I needed to watch, except the question I had about the o-rings on the puppies was not addressed. On disassembly I found three o-rings on one connection and none on the other. The left side elbow connector produced no o-rings for me,😂😂! Loved the video, thank you very very much.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Glad we were able to offer some help!

[@Seighme]

O-rings on puppies? That's a funny typo there... Thanks again, I just put over fifty miles on the excursion today after the repair, so glad to have heat again!

[@rickg2706]

This video is one of the best detailed videos on heater core removal. I did it and saved around 500$

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Very glad to hear that Rick G!! And thanks for the kind words!

[@multitoolish]

Your mechanic is way overcharging you. My mechanic charges 100 plus parts

[@jasoncarter9876]

@@multitoolish no mechanic is charging $100 to replace a heater core lol

[@multitoolish]

@@jasoncarter9876 yes sir they do. That was 4 years ago. I do it myself now. I wouldn't do it for 100 but he absolutely was

[@davidbrogan606]

Very good, thank you. Actually having the hose quick connect out to video helped a lot since I got to see the workings. Thank you Jesus.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

You are welcome David! Glad it helped you

[@tonyhornsby1533]

thank you i followed your vid to the t and was able to install my heater core on my 2004 ford f250. AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dxpvxo711]

Fantastic video. Every other video i seen about doing this the guy's head is in the way and the camera angle doesn't show you what's going on, basically a pointless video. This guy gets it right with this video. Thanks

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Thanks Dxp Vxo! Glad you found it helpful!

[@creekwalker62]

The bolt at the back of the actuator is a beast. Thanks for posting this video.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Oh yes. Hope it was helpful for you!

[@paulanderson388]

Very informative. I appreciate all the detailed explanation of the parts, disassembly, and reassembly. Well done.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gamachoduck]

Wow, so much easier than my gen 2 Dodge! Had to remove the entire upper and lower dash on the Dodge. Got the Ford and not looking back!

[@larrykositchek8422]

Thank you. Couldn't of done it without you...

[@Swampwild1]

Thanks, very helpful. They are quick connects, not quick disconnects! But a little silicon spray and keep working them till you’re fingers are sore and they suddenly and surprisingly come off. Even if you think only one tab is in, they both slip off eventually, 5-10 minutes later.

[@travisengland3306]

you can tell this was before open end ratchets. looks pretty simple n straight forward. thank you sir just made helping a buddy out 10 fold easier. i own n mainly work on obs 7.3s havent messed around on the super duties to much

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Good luck! Not hard but tight

[@ozenterprisesllc9021]

Great detail!! Thank you! The addition of that hose removal tool and details on its use would help also. Nevertheless; I wish all how-to vids took your approach. ✌️

[@ozenterprisesllc9021]

Also... Including a brief step list or a link on draining coolant might be a good addition as well.

[@jonathangoode1075]

Excellent video, thank you for simplifying an otherwise very difficult job. I enjoyed the DC talk song reference, at the end of the video. I've seen Toby Mac, and the Newsboys in concert a few times, so it was a nice surprise.

[@adamcullison8314]

I appreciate you showing step by step it definitely helps me fix my heater core of course it was lil tricky where ya said had to do by feel took me a few min of wiggle with fat hands but I appreciate you showing how to do it 😎🤙🏼💯

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Very glad it was helpful

[@dougt1989able]

Best video. Thank you. It helped me tremendously on getting that heater core exchanged. Keep up the good work

[@kleinpeter7.362]

Excellent video my brother followed you step from step only problem I had was the actuator had to find the right hole c'mon!!!

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Very glad it was helpful! What year truck did you guys fix?

[@kleinpeter7.362]

@@All4HimRacingVideos 1999 7.3. My baby

[@winstonsmith3685]

Thanks for this video. Made this job a breeze.

[@fredvencill7639]

Excellent video. Worked perfectly on my 99 F250 !

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Thanks for the feedback Fred! Glad this was helpful.

[@solomonenglish9751]

On the 99 v8 van, if the metal lines that goes to heater cord in the rear of the van has a leak, can you bypass the rear lines until a new line can be replaced ? There are four lines I believe ,which ones can be cut and a hose connected from one to another?

[@glockmaestro]

Great video, truly appreciate that. A lot easier than I thought although I wish you would have covered the quick disconnects since you do a good job on the rest.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Yeah, not too bad. I tried filming how to take the quick disconnects apart , but I felt others on KZbin did a better job on that one part. I'll try and post a link on here for that to help you and others out.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Skip to 4:00 to see how to EASILY access the heater core from the INSIDE of the truck.

[@mudracer007]

Awesome video on changing the heater core

[@jjmax3400]

Very thorough video! Thanks for informative content.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Thank you! Hope it was helpful for you

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

Great video, much easier if you just cut the aluminum tubes on the original heater core though then you can pull the ends of the hoses out where you can actually see what you're doing.

[@davidbrogan606]

The screw on the far side of the blend-door actuator was a bit hard to deal with but putting it back together was a bit simpler when I saw that the actuator just snaps into the bracket. removing the actuator makes the bracket easier to attach then the actuator snaps in easily.

[@sj7770]

Great video, this will save a lot of time and guess work.

[@mauricerhoades7509]

I disconnect the heater hoses on the engine block. I use a shop vac on one side to evacuate the heater core of fluids. Then I undo the cover on the heater core behind the glove box. Then I cut the aluminum tubes, going to the heater core and take out the remainder to the engine compartment then disconnect the quick connects, then replace the heater core.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

@@mauricerhoades7509 clever idea, i like it!

[@cencalbatteries2212]

Great job Very well explained

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Raygilley10]

very good video i was so worried about process but not nowl

[@whiteycarlson4152]

excellent video. Did my 2001 today. My advice is to use a genuine Ford part.

[@imwatchingyounow]

EASY REMOVEL OF HEATER CORE LINES. Sense you replacing the heater core it does not matter if you cut the lines on the heater core. Look at time frame 15:43. You can see the heater core lines where they go through the firewall on the inside. I cut those off flush on the inside of the firewall with a dremel tool and a cut off wheel. The lines then pull out into the engine compartment where you can easily remove the quick connect fittings or simply cut the fittings off the hoses and reinstall the hoses using new quick connect fittings as shown at time 2:21. These will give you new O rings also. You attach these new fittings to the hoses with hose clamps. Easy install. I never even took the old fittings apart. I just cut them out of the system. In fact I have done this with allot of different vehicles.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

A good suggestion! Only issue is need to make sure to catch any coolant that may drain out during the cutting of the lines.

[@bryanb9331]

Any idea what the part number is for the quick connections

[@imwatchingyounow]

@@bryanb9331 Sorry I don't recall but any parts I used were common auto parts store components.

[@toepusher]

thanks for the video. Great detail.

[@philiprubin6274]

Excellent step by step thank you

[@danclay8814]

Excellent video - thanks a ton!!

[@antoniotrapani6868]

Great video thank you

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Good luck with your repair! Was not as bad as expected compared to other ones

[@wesleybarton2880]

Awesome video!

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

I know that this is an older video,but with people still watching it, you might want to add the entire range of Excursions to your applicable vehicle list. Excursions are the same as the Super Duty trucks from the front doors forward.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Very good point!

[@Matt-rg8lm]

excellent video thoes darn clips

[@jamesherman9925]

Just watched your video, my heater core just went out found it leaking then my windshield fogged up, I'll be tackling this install myself with your video playing.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

How'd the repair go?

[@jamesherman9925]

With the help of your video it went very smooth, your step by step was spot on thank you.

[@civildesignengineeringinc.9317]

@@jamesherman9925 Curious how long this project took you? My mechanic quoted me $800 to do the replacement.

[@c69101]

Thanks for the video.

[@martym3793]

Thank's, Bro!

[@germanyanabarrios3917]

Excelent video thank you, God bless you

[@skeleman1963]

Hi. First off i wanna say awesome video! I just pulled and changed out my old heater core (1999 F250 super duty), which was leaking into my cab, and replaced with a new one. Put it all back together but now I don't have any heat. Any suggestions on what may be the cause of that?

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

+skeleman1963 How long are you letting the truck run before trying the heat? Also, the heater core and system will be full of air and will need time to bleed all the air out. I'd get the motor good and warm after a short drive, let it sit and idle, turn the heat to full blast and heat and let the system work the air out. At least for me, this proved to work just fine. After a few minutes (if that) you should start to feel the heat. Let me know the result.

[@skeleman1963]

+All4HimRacingVideos - sorry for the relate reply. I've driven a lot since that change out. the covering for the heater core is warm to the touch so i feel confident that it is circulating fluid. it almost seems as if the temperature dial isn't functioning now....does that work with the actuator motor?

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

+skeleman1963 If i understand you correctly, then yes. If for some reason the actuator is not working, the air is not deflecting properly. But if you have it sent on heat, no matter where the air is coming out, it should come out hot. Is the blower motor running?

[@skeleman1963]

+All4HimRacingVideos - yes the blower motor runs but only blows air through it...no heated air comes out when the temp dial is turned all the way to the right (hot).... update... i popped the blend door actuator motor off, reconnected the wire harness and powered up the truck and the shaft that would open/close blend door was turning(slowly). I'll will take for a drive and see what comes of this.

[@skeleman1963]

+skeleman1963 - update....have heat again. i think the actuator motor shaft wasn' t'engaged in the blend door "hole"....

[@SilkandScrooge]

Mama always had a way of putting things so I could understand them.

[@davidkirker7633]

Great video. Easily the best view, Most of the other videos don't really allow you to see what is happening. I do have a question. I have a 2005 Excursion. The engine is out and being bulletproof. I changed the front heater core but after reinstalling I can see the very top of the heater core despite the cover being in place. I'm not sure this should be the case. I used a Motocraft replacement and have no idea what I might have done wrong. Should any part of the heater core be visible above the cover? If not, any idea where I went wrong?

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Not really sure. Have you tried the old part in place to make sure that fits same way?

[@A.C.71]

My issue is that I can not seem to get the dang plastic cover behind the glovebox that goes over the heater core back on without leaving a big gap on far right side. There is a stand off peg and it seems like it's supposed to go through a hole on the plastic clamshell the heater core sits in but I'm not sure. Anyone know how to get the cover on tight? I think because it's not tight, it could be why my 4x4 Control module had moisture in it and had to be replaced.

[@Soladaddy]

Appears to be my task this weekend. Hope those 22 year old hoses let go for me.

[@dylanmunt4787]

Does ac system need to be evacuated to do this job? Thanks

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

@dylanmunt4787 no, that should not have to be removed or disconnected

[@420vegan4]

Does it make the truck run rough and sputter if it's bad and leaking ?

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Perhaps, the coolant used in the heater system is the same used in the engine for cooling. So if the engine is getting too hot from low coolant it certainly would cause it to to sputter and run bad due to getting too hot

[@kmalerich]

If you dont have a quick disconnect tool for the hoses just cut the aluminum tubing of the heater core at the fire wall since you're replacing the heater core anyway.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Good suggestion! Space is tight up by the firewall but if you are able, that is a great option.

[@bryanb9331]

Anyone have the part number for the quick connectors can't seem to find one that says it fits on all 4 of the major local auto store websites

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

These? www.partsgeek.com/rlk8sxt-ford-e350-super-duty-heater-hose-connector.html?TS&PartsGeek+Google+Base&+Ford+E350+Super+Duty+Heater+Hose+Connector+Gates+Heater+To+Pipe-2+99-03+Ford+Heater+Hose+Connector+01&gclid=CjwKCAiAp7GcBhA0EiwA9U0mtlhWUqJJDDNoNKbgo9ulcOIZZzMfvJcp4SyyVrIVZS02ZKNTsNF1RRoCsSYQAvD_BwE

[@simonhernandez1345]

Grasias amigo lo esplicaste muy bien

[@Water-cr6pc]

You don’t have to takeoff the box on top or the part to the left

[@jeremiahfisher6994]

Wish my 99 f150 was this way. Whole dash gotta come out

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

I hear you. The F150 is a totally different story.

[@zxmechanic1]

Do not remove the actuators...they are not interference to the heater core cover...waste of time

[@sasquachbigfoot9070]

That's funny my wife keeps saying to do both while your down there.

[@outlawshinemaker]

by passed mine do not need heat in the deep south

[@janatrahan7310]

When I take my glove box out, there's a plastic piece covering most of the area that I need to get to.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Does it look different plastic cover than in video?

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

Can’t you cut these crapy connectors and replace with hose clamps. And drain your entire coolant system to change a heater core ? That’s ridiculous. Just position the hoses so they’re not hanging and you won’t lose much coolant.

[@davidgates1122]

I beg to differ with you about there being a lot of great videos and information on the web about getting those hoses off. First, I have found less than a half dozen. Of those, all but one has done what you have done -- just state that they are a pain but can be done. That is not helpful at all. One guy showed doing it with a coat hanger, and if you look carefully, you can tell there is no engine in the truck and he is standing in the engine bay. That is also not helpful at all. Everybody says there is a $20 tool made for doing this, yet not a single person has one and can show how to use it. I am at 1:56 in your video and I am not watching the rest of it. You can count me among your haters, and I am going to click the thumbs down on this video.

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

David, sorry for this. We made this many years back and at the time I found a video that walked me through it, but was not confident enough on my method to include a video as I would hate to show a eay that breaks the clips. I never broke one the times I did it. The rest actually is very helpful still but I respect your decision to move on. Good luck with the rest of your repair.

[@916Willbrich]

Did I miss something I didn't see the tool to disconnect the damm tube

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Becuase of the tight clearance, I mentioned to refer to other videos on youtube that already existed that do a great job at showing how to desconnect the hoses.

[@Kr4d10]

REALLY

[@Water-cr6pc]

Couldn’t Delete my comment spoke too soon

[@barrydelvoye]

How do you do anything on this vehicle without swearing 9000 times?

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Editing! I agree with this comment! Haha

[@dingdingding7207]

Excellent video. THANK YOU!!

[@All4HimRacingVideos]

Glad you found it helpful! Just curious, what year truck did you have to repair?