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04-18-2014, 10:59 AM
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Well. I was recently blessed with a gift of a 1995 z71 4wd extended cab pickup. Father in law sold farm and moved to town, gave me the truck. Ain't God good?
After a week or so of scrubbing seats and carpets, and some frebreeze, wife says she'll ride in it now. A/C has coolant leak somewhere. Charged it with some UV dye. Can't find leak. Assume now its under dash.
Frustrating part is, it has a cassette player. Where do you get cassettes nowadays? Lol. Anyway, its gonna be a great hunting truck. Save wear and tear on my TV. Just wanted to share.
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04-18-2014, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by dcheatwood
Well. I was recently blessed with a gift of a 1995 z71 4wd extended cab pickup. Father in law sold farm and moved to town, gave me the truck. Ain't God good?
After a week or so of scrubbing seats and carpets, and some frebreeze, wife says she'll ride in it now. A/C has coolant leak somewhere. Charged it with some UV dye. Can't find leak. Assume now its under dash.
Frustrating part is, it has a cassette player. Where do you get cassettes nowadays? Lol. Anyway, its gonna be a great hunting truck. Save wear and tear on my TV. Just wanted to share.
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Try garage sales,thrift stores,salvage yards etc for cassettes.
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04-18-2014, 11:06 AM
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Try garage sales,thrift stores,salvage yards etc for cassettes.
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I got a couple of boxes full.... 
Got vinyl as well.
Had to put the tapes away when I got the 250 as it came with a CD player... 
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04-18-2014, 12:51 PM
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Yeah, I had tons of them too at one time. Held on for years but finally donated to goodwill. Hey. Maybe that's a place to look too.
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04-18-2014, 12:55 PM
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just switch it out for a CD player
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04-18-2014, 12:56 PM
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How about replace radio. New ones are not real expensive.
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04-18-2014, 12:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dcheatwood
Yeah, I had tons of them too at one time. Held on for years but finally donated to goodwill. Hey. Maybe that's a place to look too.
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Goodwill will not take them or VCR players or tapes, too old tech I guess.
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04-18-2014, 01:36 PM
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TOWTA still picks up Books on Tape from Goodwill stores wherever we go.
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04-18-2014, 02:03 PM
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I got one of those cassette tape player converter deals that allows you to hook up anything else with a headset jack. I'll send it for free. I no longer need it. 
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04-18-2014, 02:24 PM
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buy one of those cassette converters and connect it to your music player - I did it in my older car until I had a connector put in for my ipod.
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04-18-2014, 03:39 PM
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Some good ideas here. Don't really care to put much money into this truck. I know I can get a cd player for just a few bucks so I'll probably do that.
Gonna try to find the A/C leak next week. Got some uv glasses and a UV light. Hopefully can find some stain under the dash.
FORD IDAHO, our Goodwill has no choice, I box everything and drop it off. No itemizing.
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04-18-2014, 03:49 PM
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Goodwill will not take them or VCR players or tapes, too old tech I guess.
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Here in Keller we have one of what Goodwill is calling their "Goodwill Boutique" stores. Never been in it,but I remember reading about it when it opened.
It sells a little better quality merchants than the average GW store.
Guess we are just lucky.
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04-18-2014, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by B47
Here in Keller we have one of what Goodwill is calling their "Goodwill Boutique" stores. Never been in it,but I remember reading about it when it opened.
It sells a little better quality merchants than the average GW store.
Guess we are just lucky.
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Ah, never been inside the one I went to, just tried to drop stuff off but some lady looked in the boxes and said thanks but no.
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04-18-2014, 04:11 PM
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Swap out radios with one that has a usb port for an I pod player. Even cd's are going by the wayside.
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04-18-2014, 04:49 PM
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Disregard.read it wrong
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04-18-2014, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by hrlyguy2
Most likely you have a heater core leaking antifreeze. Can pull off the tube hook them together with a small pipe .Get a flushing kit comes with a pvc pipe.
see if that stops your leaking coolant
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Probably correct on the heater core leaking. And if it is the core in that old of a vehicle,you might have a job on your hands if you want to replace it. I replaced a few in my older cars and they were located under the dash - usually on the right side. Somewhat difficult to get to.
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04-18-2014, 05:27 PM
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Don't think the heater core has anything to do with an AC coolant leak as OP stated.
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04-18-2014, 05:32 PM
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Don't think the heater core has anything to do with an AC coolant leak as OP stated.
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My Bad - just piggybacking.
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04-18-2014, 08:12 PM
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Whatever it is I'll find it under the dash I assume. Mechanic shop owner friend says it should be easy to detect with UV light and glasses. Then I'll find a Chevy forum and look for advice there. Lol. Thanks all.
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04-18-2014, 09:28 PM
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Chevytalk.com is the place you want to go to. Haven't been there since I sold my 35 master sedan, but lots of knowledge there.
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