You were able to change out the heater core without removing the dash on a
'92 Passat?
And you can see the heater hoses inside of the vehicle? Amazing.

look for the '93 passat pictures of a heater core job here
http://vwdoc1.tripod.com/
Watch out for pesty popups.
Sorry about that I will have to get a site without those things. ;-)
Amazon or Ebay for your Bentley repair manual.
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later,
dave
(One out of many daves)

"McScratchy" > wrote in message
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> wrenchwench wrote:
>> what you have is a heater core (which is like a mini radiator)between the
>> drivers compartment and the front passenger compartment under the dash
>> near the feet. Basically a black plastic "box" with a split in the
>> middle. It is located inside there. Hopefully you won't have to go
>> there. Lets first look beside the accelerator pedal. On the firewall
>> right
>> behind it you should see 2 rubber hoses. That is hot water in and out to
>> the engine. Where it comes in, it then goes to the back of the "black
>> box". You may need to take the seat out as you will be getting your head
>> down at the pedals.
>> Just before it goes into the "box" there should be 2 hose clamps that
>> you can tighten. Hopefully, fingers crossed, that is where the leak is
>> at.
>> If not, then I would suggest getting a library book on VW
>> repair(Rabbits, Golfs -don't really matter they are basically the same in
>> construction) and read up on heater core removal(for now the heater core
>> has sprung a leak) which you can either get repaired at a rad shop or
>> score another at a salvage yard) New costs are terrible.
>> If you do the job yourself, You will be pulling the seats(so that you
>> have some room to work. If you are a heavy set fellow, woe beit to
>> yourself.
>> A number of hand wrenches(metric)10&13 and a screwdriver and a needle
>> nose plier and you can do it.
>> Better if you get the book for the pics are worth a thousand words.
>
> Yeah, it is a pain to get in there... But once you lodge yourself in
> there, and either have tools accessable or have someone hand you them, the
> job isn't hard at all... It actually took me longer to wedge myself in
> there and get "comfortable" than it did to actually pull and replace it.
>