Did you find the longer case bolt anywhere it wasn't supposed to be?
Yep amazingly enough! The cylinder is unmarked too and the crank seems fine!
There needs to be a hot line for abused saws.
No kidding, hard to like that. In the 70’s Oldsmobile buried the heater core in the dash of their 88’s and 98’s so that replacement meant disassembly similar to what you’re doing. While I can’t remember who showed me I learned how to cut out the firewall at that location and slide it out from the engine side. We glued the hole up using the square blank you cut out after replacement. Same with the A/C evaporator. Good luck.
That sucka looks like it spent a bit of time in a chop shop.
Lucky it's not to bad pulling all the dash out to get at the core on this one. It's a 93 festiva humans put the dash in unlike the new vehicles that have the dash put in all assembled in one go the modern rubbish isn't even designed to be worked on.
This reminds me of when I put an aftermarket radio in my old school Cavalier in High School. That looked similar when I finally got the trimming off around the old stereo. But hey, I could listen to CDs after that. Another piece of history, Compact discs.
