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I'm cleaning up the engine bay on my 72 TA a little before the engine goes back in & thought it'd be a good time to replace the heater hoses going to the heater core since the hood is off. The upper hose is right there but unfortunately with ac you can't even see the lower hose much less get to it. I even removed the pass side hood hinge but still you can't even see where the hose connects to the core from the topside.

It's hard to think GM's engineers would design something as simple as coolant hose replacement that requires inner or outer fender removal but I don't see any other way short removing the inner fender well. Has anyone here come up w/a easy way to replace hoses on an ac equipped early second gen F body? BTW cutting a hole in the fender well in not an option for this car!