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Rory Schubert

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heater core
« on: April 20, 2016, 11:23:26 PM »
I need someone to show me pictures of the CORRECT clips that hold the heater core in the heater box for a 1969 ss Camaro Big Block without ac.

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Re: heater core
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2016, 12:17:16 PM »
Please works well too ;) Here you go. These are the ones from my SS. Let me know if you need anything else.












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Re: heater core
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2016, 12:50:39 PM »
Hi Dave,

  Is that a grayish paint of a faded zinc coating on those two clips?

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Mike
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Re: heater core
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2016, 10:32:36 PM »
I'm pretty sure it's just light blue paint.  I used Krylon KSCS070 Bonnet Blue.   Very close if not spot on.

Here's mine from a small block:

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After paint:



Installed:





The two screws appear black but upon clean-up, pretty sure they were silver zinc color.  The black from the seal discolored them.

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Re: heater core
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2016, 11:59:36 AM »
Hi Dave,

  Is that a grayish paint of a faded zinc coating on those two clips?

Thanks,
Mike
Hans is correct. It's an egg shell blue paint of some sort.
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Re: heater core
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2016, 01:19:08 PM »
Perhaps the small block cars were different but I found no evidence of paint on one of the clips on my big block heater core when I disassembled it for restoration. I found that Valspar paint 86007 (Flat La Fonda Mirage) was pretty darn close to what I found on the one clip.

Here are a few before and after pics.

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Re: heater core
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2016, 03:13:41 PM »
Perhaps the small block cars were different but I found no evidence of paint on one of the clips on my big block heater core when I disassembled it for restoration. I found that Valspar paint 86007 (Flat La Fonda Mirage) was pretty darn close to what I found on the one clip.

Here are a few before and after pics.

Bob

Interesting.  It appears some were painted; others not as HawkX66's clips both appear to have been painted while only one of yours was. 
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Re: heater core
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2016, 05:22:28 PM »
Interesting.  It appears some were painted; others not as HawkX66's clips both appear to have been painted while only one of yours was. 

Yea....go figure? Maybe they ran out of paint. :) My car is a '68 if that matters.

Bob
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