has anyone had to change the heater matrix on their s2?

how easy is it to do?

do you HAVE to remove the dash?

cheers in advance , neil

 

dash out yeah iirc, shouldn't be too bad a job, have you got a haynes manual?, that should guide you quite well

 

no dash dont have to come out. take the two pipes off in the eng bay.two screws hold it on inside the box you will have to free up dash to move it about.its take about 1 hour to as its not easy lol

 

i've changed mine with the dash on the car!!. just put out the center console and the central air vents. Remove all the air pipes and the two ties. Ties are beside driver and passenger foot. in engine bay are two hoses going to the small heater radiator. After all these you sould find two 13mm screws. This is thε difficult part of the job because you don't have enough space to move..

 

Had mine out in my MK3 yesterday as its leaking,as said just pull the vent hoses off and undo the 13mm nuts holding the heater box to the bulk head and that should give you enough room to pull the 2 pipes through the bulk head and slide the rad out, whilst on the subject has anyone got a spare rad they would like to sell as mine is leaking,tried to silicon it up but made no difference

 

cheers lads,

s1 combi, try ebay mate or local factors, mine was Ł32 from local radiator shop

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-ESCORT-XR...item35a5bb0fb1

 

been and tried local factors and he said 'yeah Ł25+vat' thought result! He then rung his supplier and they said 'no been made obsolete!' so ebay it is

 

<anaged to get one from my local ford dealer beggining of the year for my S2 as the factors one that was listed was wrong.
Bout an hours work with dash still in.

 

i gotta do mine, im loosing water through it, not much but enough to have to top up once a week trying to get one on a budjet isnt fun tho

 

sorted it today, more fiddley than anything, took me a couple of hours from start to finish with the snow