So much time saved by using your method! Auto shop quoted me $1,800 to do this job by taking dash out. Now, I will tackle this myself. Thanks so much, will watch the channel for other "WK" tips! Your the Freakin' Jeep King in my book.
The one thing I would do different... just unplug the two heater core hoses in and out. You could even blow in one inlet to push out antifreeze. Antifreeze is expensive. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
I get a slight antifreeze smell when I first turn on the heater and a slight film on the windshield. It's time to change the heater core. This is one of the cleanest shortcut methods I have seen. Nice job.
Great video. Here's a tip honed over the years - to keep track of screws, use a little parts bin instead of a tray. Start on the top left and fill left to right, top to bottom. My wife will drop a note in each tray as I go. In turn, I can take a break or even come back a couple days later to button things up and it's a breeze.
That's a great tip. Often with engine projects we will take a piece of cardboard and draw the shape of the part. Then we will pop holes in the bolt locations and then insert the bolts. It works great if you have a bunch of bolts that go in specific places. At the repair shop we have a few of these methods to make long term projects easier. For some projects, a box of cheap zipper lock sandwich bags and a sharpie works wonders.
Just finished my heater core 2005 jeep grand cherokee followed your video worked out great , other than some bloody knuckles, mopar heater core $ 85.00 ,, dealer wanted around a $1000.00 bucks.Thanks.
Mr Tiny! I very rarely comment on any videos. In your case, I definitely will make an exception! Thank you so much for presenting this alternative to full removal of the dash. My son and I just replaced the heater core in his ‘05 Jeep Grand Cherokee. We followed your advice and he is up and running with zero leaks. Thank you again.
Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad that you were able to tune in and follow. I made these to help fellow Jeep people get back on the road. Hopefully you subscribed and can visit again for fun.
i'm a new subcriber and i just wanted to let you and your followers know that everything that this gentleman did on that 2005 jeep grand cherokee is exactly what you need to do on the jeep commander to swap out the heatercore. i want to thank you for the time it took you to do and explain everything.
@@FreakinJeepGarage hope it helps any of your subsribers that have the commander cause it's an expensive job when it comes to the stealerships doing it.
Excellent. I think this is a sensible method for doing the core replacement and renewing the seals. I greatly appreciate your efforts to reveal the detailed steps. I also looked for and am buying a small light with magnet like yours. I've just bought my 04 Cherokee Laredo and had heard about the terrible job pulling the dash. Now I'm happy since your method makes this job reasonable. Thanks, I subscribed.
Excellent short cut! far better than disturbing the whole dash when you don't have to. BTW, I wonder how many dealerships charge for the whole dash removal while the tech, does it this exact same way. The customer will never know the difference! I've had a WK for a long time (2007 bought it in 2009) while I love it some of the repairs are a lot more difficult than on older Grand Cherokees like our '98. Especially difficult is the radiator on the Hemi models with the hydraulic fan.
Thanks for your feedback. I'm glad the video helped you out. I hope you gave me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button. it helps my content get seen by more like you.
Thank you for making this video! Between the insanely time consuming factory service method and the "15 minute hack job", this is a good compromise solution to this replacement task. I can see times where you'd want to do things the factory way especially if the vehicle is still under manufactures warranty, but if you have an older vehicle out of warranty this route makes so much more sense.
Yes, absolutely. Some people are by the book. Some people are caught in a time pinch (only vehicle, no time to wait). I came across this method and thought I'd share. We actually had an incident where the heater core popped. It took me all of like 10 minutes to swap it out again and an hour to clean up the mess.
Thanks! I know very little about working on my vehicle and you just made this replacement pretty simple. $15 drill and $5 bits from the pawn shop and the $60 heater core and there ya have it. Easy peasy.
That's great that it was able to help you out. I appreciate your feedback. I hope you gave me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button. There is going to be more videos to help out with your repairs in the future!
Can you remove the upper dash panel without taking out the entire dash? Jeep got hit and passenger airbag blew, so I need to replace the airbag, and the upper half of the dash(I'm hoping just the upper half). Can you give me any insight on this? Its an 07 jeep grand cherokee limited.
I don't know about you guys but usually when I try things like this I end up regretting it. This time things went swimmingly, and I attribute that to Freakin' Jeep here. I saved at least $900 and it took me 6 hours but I am slow and not even much of a mechanic. It's amazing the actual part replacement takes 10 minutes.... the rest of the pain is because of bad design for serviceability.
I appreciate the feed back. Its good that someone is getting use from it. Hope you tell more Jeep Friends so they can subscribe and help me grow the channel.
I appreciate your feedback. It was done to be the easiest for the beginner to repair this, as simple repair. I'm glad it helped you. I hope you gave my video a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button.
Your video is being very helpful to me. I am going to complete to job in the morning. It looks like it has already been replaced once. The spot welds have been replaced with self taping screws. All of your video is very much appreciated and will save me hundreds of dollars. Keep sharing your knowledge. Thank you very much Sir!
I'm glad it's helping you out. I do this for fun and to help others out. I only ask you to give me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button. This helps me reach more people. Thank you for your feedback and help
Great video. Very helpful. This works on a jeep commander also. However, I found that using a 7mm closed end wrench on the hidden screws behind the dash (at around 13:00 in the video) worked best. The commander has 3 screws. I messed around with the socket for 30 minutes but could not get any of the screws out. But, it took about 5 minutes with the wrench. Also, the commander has a screw hidden in the compartment at the bottom of the heater control panel. The panel will not pop out until you remove it. You can also leave the wiring harnesses connected to the heater control panel and radio. I disconnected the battery and put the shifter in drive to get room to move the control panel out. And the radio just needs to be unscrewed and pulled out a little to cut the dash.
for sure shops are doing this and charging the whole 7 hrs install I was quoted 1300 took me 3 hrs because I had to get the OEM o rings always use oem I didnt see you change them always change and lube before installing
About a year ago Meineke changed my heater core and must have cracked something on the new one and had welded the dash brace back together before discovering their "acident." Not wanting to do the job twice, I think they pored leak stop in the system and called it done because now a year later it leaked worse than ever. Your video helped me more than words can express because now I could do the job myself - I even changed out my radiator with the help of another and changed my power steering fluid because it looked like Hershey's chocolate syrup. Thanks again. I didn't want to spend another thousand dollars for nothing. P S : I think when the mechanic was torquing the center coupler the plastic housing may have broken by over tightening or shaking things too much. Go slow when joining the coolant pipes. I had to use my reciprocating saw on the braces because the drilling didn't work. I joined them back up with some sheet metal, nuts, and bolts. Edit : I discovered the joy of the many uses of galvanized steel wire too.
@@FreakinJeepGarage with prior planing an easier way to rejoin metal braces in the dash board is if they must be sawed apart - drill holes to just lace them back together later with galvanized wire. Not a perfect fit but it's an option.
@@craftpaint1644 I appreciate the feed back. Your idea could help a fellow Jeeper in the future. Hope you tell more Jeep friends so they can subscribe and help me grow the channel.
Amazing vid. I would not have finished this project as it would have discouraged me to take out the entire dash. Great attn. to detail on the video. Jeep has been running great ever since the change out. One bit of advice, mark ALL of your screws, so they get put back in the right place. I had a couple of extras at the end, which is fairly unusual for me. Savin this as a favorite channel
I appreciate your feedback and I am happy that this video helped you out with your project. Thanks for saving my channel and hopefully subscribing to it. It's these comments that keep me working on it. Look for more videos in the near future.
I'm going to attempt this job tomorrow on my 05 seems pretty straight forward. I don't really care if I have to hack my Jeep apart to get the heater core the ol girl has 245,000 miles I don't think she has that much life left in her
It is not so much pride in tools, but a visual on the tools used. I have often seen videos that people don't show a tools list. Sometimes there may be a special tool involved that you may not have. I am going to try to involve a tools used part to the videos to give people a chance to see if they have the right tools for the repair. Thank you for your feedback, hope you gave me a thumbs up, and hit the subscribe button. There will be more, fun videos to come
Do you know if I could follow the same steps for my 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee? In watching your video, the '05 you worked on looks about the same. I have a puddle of coolant in my passenger side so I'm fairly certain it's the heater core. Your video is great, thanks!
you got that off. i would never had thought the core swap could have been done in around an hour not counting the air bleeding. that was a great short cut too, would that same process work on a 2006 jeep commander?
I can't say for certain as I have never had to do one on a Commander. I know there are similarities but I don't know if this is one of those situations or not. I'd like to think that it is a similar process. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Excellent video, saved a ton of time thanks to you. On a side note, are you familiar with relearning the servos for the blend doors on the automatic climate control system?
Thanks, I appreciate your feed back and I hope you recommend me and my videos to my friends. As for the the relearn, I'm not sure on the WK's. I know my WJ goes through a regular calibration cycle that it learns the range of cycle for each actuator.
I don’t usually comment on videos, but you saved me a lot of time and money! My WK is a right hand drive (steering wheel on correct side 😀) so Was all done the other way round. I bought a new heater core expecting that to be the cause of my leak, turned out to be the aluminium pipes had corroded. Any how, thanks for a great video
2009 JGC Overland..I need to replace my evaporator.. I really don’t want to remove the entire dash. Have any tips to speed up the process? If it involves snipping parts of the dash in half like you did with the heater core, I’m totally fine with that.
That's a good question. I have never done that. If I would have, I would have done a video. As far as I know, the dash has to come out for that replacement.
I thought you were not going to pull the dash out out 05WK. In any case, I am too scared by this amount of work. A bottle of stop leak has worked well for me so far. Occasional coolant smell but the windows are no longer foggy. If I had to replace the heater core, I will just cut the trim and then put it back with screws and braces.
This is what I did. Minimal work vs pulling the whole dash out to make room. this is the shortcut that I used. I didn't pull the dash, I did however remove some trim pieces and drill out a couple of spot welds. I feel any person can realistically do this in the driveway in an hour vs 4 to 6 to remove the dash. I hope this video helped. Glad you took the time to watch. 🙂
@@FreakinJeepGarage There is an air bleed screw that uses an Allen wrench on top of the water pump coolant outlet on top of the motor that lets the coolant system fill fully and lets most all of the air out. It takes 3 1/2 gallons of coolant to fill mine. Only about a gallon will fill if the bleeder is not taken out. Take the screw/bolt out and fill the radiator until coolant comes out of the bleeder. Put the radiator cap on tight and fill the reservoir. Good luck.
@@chevy6969200 Yes there is and that definitely helps, but I have had them bleed easy and bleed difficult. It is a hit and miss. Luckily our shop is built up high so I have steep driveways that helps aide in bleeding systems.
I believe I have a SuperChips 3874 or 3875 and it works great as I run the 87 octane tune. I am also able to correct the speedometer for the larger tires that we have on this Jeep. I have a couple of Jeep GC's WK & WJ that I run tuners on. They really do run better, smother, and a little bit more efficient.
Im about to start this fun project. Is there anything you have to do with the coolant system besides just drain it? Ive been reading different forums (but not specific to 2005 JGC) of disconnecting hoses on engine side by firewall or doing something with A/C ? Is there anything i should know besides what you show or do in the video? Thanks much!
This is really easy to do. Yes drain the coolant system from the radiator drain. You will still need a pan to drain the core. you do not have to mess with the a/c components or heater hoses with this model of Jeep. If you do the cheat method as I did, it can be done in a couple of hours. I recently had to replace it due to a belt pulley seizing up causing the Jeep to overheat. I was able to swap in a new one in about 30 minutes once the modification for the cheat method was done. I have had no issues with dash rattle of any sort. Hope this helps.
@@FreakinJeepGarage awesome thank you! And thank you for making this video.. Shop wanted $1,400. Part is about $60. I had watched SEVERAL videos but none really went through as much detail and steps as you.. I would've never found this video though (due to the title/name).. luckily for me it started playing automatically after another video which was NOT helpful. Without your video I don't think I would've completed the job.. or i would've been working on it for a very long time doing the whole dash and most likely screwing something up and failing Lol.. again thank you so much
@@joebecker3107 yeah, unfortunately in order to come up in searches, it needs more likes. The more likes my videos get, the better they show up. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tell your Jeep friends to join up. I'm grateful for the feedback.
Well I did it. But now my jeep only blows hot air when I'm driving or if I'm revving it up. If it's just idling, it blows less than warm air. Not sure what the problem is now. Maybe I didn't put in the coolant properly or something. Does it take a while for the new core to work properly? (I've driven about 30 miles total since the change).
@@joebecker3107 Some people have issues bleeding the cooling system. I know my WK was a real pain the first time. I parked on a hill, bleeder out, engine off, then start engine, engine off, filling in between.... then the rest was just heat cycles to work the air out through the reservoir. The second time I was able to fill running and was fine after a couple of heat cycles.
So much time saved by using your method! Auto shop quoted me $1,800 to do this job by taking dash out. Now, I will tackle this myself. Thanks so much, will watch the channel for other "WK" tips! Your the Freakin' Jeep King in my book.
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The one thing I would do different... just unplug the two heater core hoses in and out. You could even blow in one inlet to push out antifreeze. Antifreeze is expensive. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Thank you for the tip. This may help someone in the future.
Excellent job, I’m about to tackle this project soon. This is going to save me a tremendous amount of money my family sure could use these days.
Best video on UA-cam for this job
I like to think so. at least for a long step by step
@@FreakinJeepGarageI watched damn near all of em, and this is the best one I found… thanks
I get a slight antifreeze smell when I first turn on the heater and a slight film on the windshield. It's time to change the heater core. This is one of the cleanest shortcut methods I have seen. Nice job.
Great video. Here's a tip honed over the years - to keep track of screws, use a little parts bin instead of a tray. Start on the top left and fill left to right, top to bottom. My wife will drop a note in each tray as I go. In turn, I can take a break or even come back a couple days later to button things up and it's a breeze.
That's a great tip. Often with engine projects we will take a piece of cardboard and draw the shape of the part. Then we will pop holes in the bolt locations and then insert the bolts. It works great if you have a bunch of bolts that go in specific places. At the repair shop we have a few of these methods to make long term projects easier. For some projects, a box of cheap zipper lock sandwich bags and a sharpie works wonders.
Just finished my heater core 2005 jeep grand cherokee followed your video worked out great , other than some bloody knuckles, mopar heater core $ 85.00 ,, dealer wanted around a $1000.00 bucks.Thanks.
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Mr Tiny! I very rarely comment on any videos. In your case, I definitely will make an exception! Thank you so much for presenting this alternative to full removal of the dash. My son and I just replaced the heater core in his ‘05 Jeep Grand Cherokee. We followed your advice and he is up and running with zero leaks. Thank you again.
Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad that you were able to tune in and follow. I made these to help fellow Jeep people get back on the road. Hopefully you subscribed and can visit again for fun.
i'm a new subcriber and i just wanted to let you and your followers know that everything that this gentleman did on that 2005 jeep grand cherokee is exactly what you need to do on the jeep commander to swap out the heatercore. i want to thank you for the time it took you to do and explain everything.
That's great feedback and I will add to the video notes and keywords
@@FreakinJeepGarage hope it helps any of your subsribers that have the commander cause it's an expensive job when it comes to the stealerships doing it.
Excellent. I think this is a sensible method for doing the core replacement and renewing the seals. I greatly appreciate your efforts to reveal the detailed steps. I also looked for and am buying a small light with magnet like yours. I've just bought my 04 Cherokee Laredo and had heard about the terrible job pulling the dash. Now I'm happy since your method makes this job reasonable. Thanks, I subscribed.
You're welcome and thank you.
Excellent short cut! far better than disturbing the whole dash when you don't have to.
BTW, I wonder how many dealerships charge for the whole dash removal while the tech, does it this exact same way. The customer will never know the difference!
I've had a WK for a long time (2007 bought it in 2009) while I love it some of the repairs are a lot more difficult than on older Grand Cherokees like our '98. Especially difficult is the radiator on the Hemi models with the hydraulic fan.
Great video! Very good details. Nice camera angling. Confidently got heater core accessed without any real damage. Thank you much!
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Thank you for making this video! Between the insanely time consuming factory service method and the "15 minute hack job", this is a good compromise solution to this replacement task. I can see times where you'd want to do things the factory way especially if the vehicle is still under manufactures warranty, but if you have an older vehicle out of warranty this route makes so much more sense.
Yes, absolutely. Some people are by the book. Some people are caught in a time pinch (only vehicle, no time to wait). I came across this method and thought I'd share. We actually had an incident where the heater core popped. It took me all of like 10 minutes to swap it out again and an hour to clean up the mess.
Thanks! I know very little about working on my vehicle and you just made this replacement pretty simple. $15 drill and $5 bits from the pawn shop and the $60 heater core and there ya have it. Easy peasy.
That's great that it was able to help you out. I appreciate your feedback. I hope you gave me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button. There is going to be more videos to help out with your repairs in the future!
Can you remove the upper dash panel without taking out the entire dash? Jeep got hit and passenger airbag blew, so I need to replace the airbag, and the upper half of the dash(I'm hoping just the upper half). Can you give me any insight on this? Its an 07 jeep grand cherokee limited.
I don't know about you guys but usually when I try things like this I end up regretting it. This time things went swimmingly, and I attribute that to Freakin' Jeep here. I saved at least $900 and it took me 6 hours but I am slow and not even much of a mechanic. It's amazing the actual part replacement takes 10 minutes.... the rest of the pain is because of bad design for serviceability.
I appreciate the feed back. Its good that someone is getting use from it. Hope you tell more Jeep Friends so they can subscribe and help me grow the channel.
Awesome step by step video! just knocked out my OE heater core yesterday took about 2 hours👍🏽
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Great job showing a happy medium between Hell and Hack Job - will be following your lead next weekend!
I appreciate your feedback. It was done to be the easiest for the beginner to repair this, as simple repair. I'm glad it helped you. I hope you gave my video a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button.
Your video is being very helpful to me. I am going to complete to job in the morning. It looks like it has already been replaced once. The spot welds have been replaced with self taping screws. All of your video is very much appreciated and will save me hundreds of dollars. Keep sharing your knowledge. Thank you very much Sir!
I'm glad it's helping you out. I do this for fun and to help others out. I only ask you to give me a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button. This helps me reach more people. Thank you for your feedback and help
Great video. Very helpful.
This works on a jeep commander also. However, I found that using a 7mm closed end wrench on the hidden screws behind the dash (at around 13:00 in the video) worked best. The commander has 3 screws. I messed around with the socket for 30 minutes but could not get any of the screws out. But, it took about 5 minutes with the wrench. Also, the commander has a screw hidden in the compartment at the bottom of the heater control panel. The panel will not pop out until you remove it.
You can also leave the wiring harnesses connected to the heater control panel and radio. I disconnected the battery and put the shifter in drive to get room to move the control panel out. And the radio just needs to be unscrewed and pulled out a little to cut the dash.
That's a great comment that will help our fellow Jeepers with the XK's / Commanders out. Thank you for sharing with us.
for sure shops are doing this and charging the whole 7 hrs install I was quoted 1300 took me 3 hrs because I had to get the OEM o rings always use oem I didnt see you change them always change and lube before installing
About a year ago Meineke changed my heater core and must have cracked something on the new one and had welded the dash brace back together before discovering their "acident." Not wanting to do the job twice, I think they pored leak stop in the system and called it done because now a year later it leaked worse than ever.
Your video helped me more than words can express because now I could do the job myself - I even changed out my radiator with the help of another and changed my power steering fluid because it looked like Hershey's chocolate syrup.
Thanks again. I didn't want to spend another thousand dollars for nothing.
P S : I think when the mechanic was torquing the center coupler the plastic housing may have broken by over tightening or shaking things too much. Go slow when joining the coolant pipes.
I had to use my reciprocating saw on the braces because the drilling didn't work. I joined them back up with some sheet metal, nuts, and bolts.
Edit : I discovered the joy of the many uses of galvanized steel wire too.
Thank you for your feedback and I'm happy that this helped someone.
@@FreakinJeepGarage with prior planing an easier way to rejoin metal braces in the dash board is if they must be sawed apart - drill holes to just lace them back together later with galvanized wire. Not a perfect fit but it's an option.
@@craftpaint1644 I appreciate the feed back. Your idea could help a fellow Jeeper in the future. Hope you tell more Jeep friends so they can subscribe and help me grow the channel.
Amazing vid. I would not have finished this project as it would have discouraged me to take out the entire dash. Great attn. to detail on the video. Jeep has been running great ever since the change out. One bit of advice, mark ALL of your screws, so they get put back in the right place. I had a couple of extras at the end, which is fairly unusual for me. Savin this as a favorite channel
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Great vid! This is a great way not pulling the whole dash!
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At 35-36 minutes, you have the new unit in. Why not test the system before you spend an hour putting everything back together?
Great video, just what I was looking for. Thank you.
We like to hear that it's helping fellow Jeeple
I'm going to attempt this job tomorrow on my 05 seems pretty straight forward. I don't really care if I have to hack my Jeep apart to get the heater core the ol girl has 245,000 miles I don't think she has that much life left in her
great video one of the best i have seen on how to do the job went on a bit about his tools but hey I'm proud of my tools too
It is not so much pride in tools, but a visual on the tools used. I have often seen videos that people don't show a tools list. Sometimes there may be a special tool involved that you may not have. I am going to try to involve a tools used part to the videos to give people a chance to see if they have the right tools for the repair. Thank you for your feedback, hope you gave me a thumbs up, and hit the subscribe button. There will be more, fun videos to come
Great video and very understandable. Genius really! What a time saver. Is there a similar shortcut to replacing the A/C evaporator?
I don't know of any tricks to do that job.
Thanks so much for this video; saved me a ton of time. This hack works great.
Hi. Great Video, thank you. Will this work on the right hand drive export? I am guessing not.
I can't answer that as I have never worked on the right hand drive equivalents.
Do you know if I could follow the same steps for my 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee? In watching your video, the '05 you worked on looks about the same. I have a puddle of coolant in my passenger side so I'm fairly certain it's the heater core. Your video is great, thanks!
I believe it's the same process for all WK's and another subscriber said its similar on a Commander
I have a 2010 Grand Cherokee that I'll be doing this on in a few days. Looks legit
Thank you, easy to follow instructions
you got that off. i would never had thought the core swap could have been done in around an hour not counting the air bleeding. that was a great short cut too, would that same process work on a 2006 jeep commander?
I can't say for certain as I have never had to do one on a Commander. I know there are similarities but I don't know if this is one of those situations or not. I'd like to think that it is a similar process. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
You rock!!!! Stellar fix
Excellent video, saved a ton of time thanks to you. On a side note, are you familiar with relearning the servos for the blend doors on the automatic climate control system?
Thanks, I appreciate your feed back and I hope you recommend me and my videos to my friends. As for the the relearn, I'm not sure on the WK's. I know my WJ goes through a regular calibration cycle that it learns the range of cycle for each actuator.
I don’t usually comment on videos, but you saved me a lot of time and money! My WK is a right hand drive (steering wheel on correct side 😀) so Was all done the other way round. I bought a new heater core expecting that to be the cause of my leak, turned out to be the aluminium pipes had corroded. Any how, thanks for a great video
I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video!
You talked about a different t leak probably what was it?
2009 JGC Overland..I need to replace my evaporator.. I really don’t want to remove the entire dash. Have any tips to speed up the process? If it involves snipping parts of the dash in half like you did with the heater core, I’m totally fine with that.
That's a good question. I have never done that. If I would have, I would have done a video. As far as I know, the dash has to come out for that replacement.
I thought you were not going to pull the dash out out 05WK. In any case, I am too scared by this amount of work. A bottle of stop leak has worked well for me so far. Occasional coolant smell but the windows are no longer foggy.
If I had to replace the heater core, I will just cut the trim and then put it back with screws and braces.
This is what I did. Minimal work vs pulling the whole dash out to make room. this is the shortcut that I used. I didn't pull the dash, I did however remove some trim pieces and drill out a couple of spot welds. I feel any person can realistically do this in the driveway in an hour vs 4 to 6 to remove the dash. I hope this video helped. Glad you took the time to watch. 🙂
Hey you are great love the help
I put the new heater core in but its been 30 minutes and its still not heating up
It can take a while to get all the air of the air out of the system. Parking on a hill with noise pointing up
@@FreakinJeepGarage There is an air bleed screw that uses an Allen wrench on top of the water pump coolant outlet on top of the motor that lets the coolant system fill fully and lets most all of the air out. It takes 3 1/2 gallons of coolant to fill mine. Only about a gallon will fill if the bleeder is not taken out. Take the screw/bolt out and fill the radiator until coolant comes out of the bleeder. Put the radiator cap on tight and fill the reservoir. Good luck.
@@chevy6969200 Yes there is and that definitely helps, but I have had them bleed easy and bleed difficult. It is a hit and miss. Luckily our shop is built up high so I have steep driveways that helps aide in bleeding systems.
Excelente video, justo lo que buscaba,
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Which Superchips was that? And is it for the 4.7L equipped 2005 Wk? Thanks
I believe I have a SuperChips 3874 or 3875 and it works great as I run the 87 octane tune. I am also able to correct the speedometer for the larger tires that we have on this Jeep. I have a couple of Jeep GC's WK & WJ that I run tuners on. They really do run better, smother, and a little bit more efficient.
thanks for the video you dit good job
Im about to start this fun project. Is there anything you have to do with the coolant system besides just drain it? Ive been reading different forums (but not specific to 2005 JGC) of disconnecting hoses on engine side by firewall or doing something with A/C ? Is there anything i should know besides what you show or do in the video?
Thanks much!
This is really easy to do. Yes drain the coolant system from the radiator drain. You will still need a pan to drain the core. you do not have to mess with the a/c components or heater hoses with this model of Jeep. If you do the cheat method as I did, it can be done in a couple of hours. I recently had to replace it due to a belt pulley seizing up causing the Jeep to overheat. I was able to swap in a new one in about 30 minutes once the modification for the cheat method was done. I have had no issues with dash rattle of any sort. Hope this helps.
@@FreakinJeepGarage awesome thank you! And thank you for making this video.. Shop wanted $1,400. Part is about $60. I had watched SEVERAL videos but none really went through as much detail and steps as you.. I would've never found this video though (due to the title/name).. luckily for me it started playing automatically after another video which was NOT helpful. Without your video I don't think I would've completed the job.. or i would've been working on it for a very long time doing the whole dash and most likely screwing something up and failing Lol.. again thank you so much
@@joebecker3107 yeah, unfortunately in order to come up in searches, it needs more likes. The more likes my videos get, the better they show up. Make sure to like, subscribe, and tell your Jeep friends to join up. I'm grateful for the feedback.
Well I did it. But now my jeep only blows hot air when I'm driving or if I'm revving it up. If it's just idling, it blows less than warm air. Not sure what the problem is now. Maybe I didn't put in the coolant properly or something. Does it take a while for the new core to work properly? (I've driven about 30 miles total since the change).
@@joebecker3107 Some people have issues bleeding the cooling system. I know my WK was a real pain the first time. I parked on a hill, bleeder out, engine off, then start engine, engine off, filling in between.... then the rest was just heat cycles to work the air out through the reservoir. The second time I was able to fill running and was fine after a couple of heat cycles.
So I replace the heating core and thermostat but still no heat what else is there !!
You could have a broken temperature door or bad actuator.
How do you bleed the air out of the heater core
I was able to start and run it to bleed out. Otherwise vacuum bleeding helps
Nice
Thanks Man!!
t25 torx screws how many?
I don't remember. Whatever I took out in the video.
@@FreakinJeepGarage there two different sizes t25 & t20?
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