Drove my 81 and my brother was in the passenger side an all Of a sudden he feels something hot and the dash got kinda smokey.. Found out it pours out water right under the glove box... Need help on finding out the problem please help thanks for ur time

 

Water or COOLANT?

I assume you mean coolant unless you just washed your car with hot water...

It's probably the water valve / **** that controls the coolant flow to the heater core (common problem... you can search and find lots of info).

 

yeah coolant.. umm where is this located at and how do i fix it?? i want to learn on fixing my zx by myself and the help of the friendly ppl on here, so if you can help thanks

 

Yup yup...

Seriously. I've already typed it a few times. I don't need to type it up again.

 

and if i remove the a/c heater would this go away??

 

Depends on what is leaking.

You could always look under there and find out.

 

There are hoses behind the dash, possibly they're cracking, or loose?

I'm sure over 90% of the population here would be able to tell you what's wrong, if we were there.

So by asking if you take something off will it fix the problem, it might, but only if that is what the problem is with.

Get down and dirty with your Z! She's 30+ years old now, she'll start to leak a little, especially with 30 year old parts

 

Yeah I took the bottom part off but I saw was a **** load of wires

 

my 81 is over heating so i thought it would b the themostat but thermostat housing (cap) has a big chip on it .. the thing that you connect the hose to.. i was wondering if this will cause the overheating.. and the gasket was melted..
the themostat looks find...

one more thing.. my passenger side is leaking.. but ppl on here is saying its the water crock but i dont want to go to the turbo of taking off my dash..
so is there an other away to stop this problem

plus the guy that sold me my zx told my the heater was bypassed .. how do i know he wasnt lieing..

and if it was bypass wouldnt this stop any leakage in the cab??

 

Merged threads...

We've already been over this...........................................

Two fumbs up!

 

If it was bypassed in the engine bay it wouldn't leak in the cab. You're going to have to get in there and see what's wrong.

 

Are you sure they didn't use some sort of liquid gasket. I doubt it melted.

If you want a mickey mouse car then mickey mouse the fix. If you want it done properly then take the time to fix it properly. It's very very easy. All you are doing is unscrewing screws to get this stuff out. Follow the procedure in the FSM - 99% of the population can do this. It's going to take some time especially the first time you do it. The more you do this kind of stuff the easier it is to do something similar.

The heater core obviously wasn't bypassed since it was leaking all over the floor...

 

yeah you right i dont want a mickey mouse car (like ricers)

the thing was that i didnt want to loose anything when working on the car and idk why it feels like i would mess up the car for some reason, cause i never worked on a car before, but i really want to learn things . so i think im just gonna go for it..

 

Not to worry bro. I feel the exact same way as you. I bought my 370Z almost three years ago when they first came out and wanted a car to work on. I found my 240Z but it was completely restored (about 2.5 years ago) but the temp gauge wasn't working so I figured out it must be the temp sender in the thermostat housing (resistance reading was WAY off on the sensor). Anyhow I was super nervous to change it - didn't want to wreck anything. Didn't know about if the coolant was going to come out like a fire hose, etc, etc, etc. Of course it turns out it was a super minor job. Skip ahead to just over a year ago and I picked up a turbo 280ZX to work on because I didn't wreak my 280ZX NA that I'm planing on doing a turbo swap into. Now that I have a car that it doesn't matter if I wrecked something on I didn't have (as much) fear (lol) about wreaking something. Now whenever I try something it's pretty rare that I've done something the wrong way or it gets wrecked. I do read a ton and virtually every question about the stock 280ZX is answered in the FSM. So don't be worried. READ READ READ - 99% of the things you have questions about are answered in the FSM and 0.9% are already answered in the forums (search) and the other 0.1% are valid questions