Easy,
If you have either a loose ground or a hot lead "bleeding" into the ground
circuit, electrolysis happens (corrosion in the radiator/heater core with
electricity). Easy way to tell is grab your voltmeter and put the hot lead
on the battery and the ground lead in the radiator. You should NOT have
more than .05-.10v.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Josh Battles
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:19 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Heater Core - Update
Well, thos morning I brought my dak into the dealer that replaced the heater
core last march to see if they'd replace it again for me and give me a break
since I'm only out of the 12mo warranty by 2 weeks. Well, the break they
were going to give me was 10% off of the parts. OMG YAY,
$5 off of a $50 part, STOP THE PRESSES!!! I was unimpressed and they
decided to drop the price from $780 to $600 for the job in hopes of winning
me over. I told them that I wasn't about to pay that much for something
that they should have been able to help me out a little more on and said
that for $500 total I'd have done it. They told me that they couldn't do
that so I had them bypass the heater core alltogether.
The writer told me "but you won't have any heat!" So, now I'm driving
around with no heat, but it's not really that big of a deal, it's going to
be 70 degrees here for the next week or so.
I called up my friend Matt (he's got his own shop) and he said he'd help me
do the job for $100 and a case of beer. He asked me if I'd ever heard of
electrolysis, and I know what that is but what I don't understand is how it
could occur on a heater core. Can anyone explain this to me?
-- - Josh
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