How-To: Heater Core Replacement Shortcuts on the Left-hand Drive Range Rover P38

Brazeau Racing has a great article with pictures on the shortcut process for replacing the heater core on a left-hand drive Land Rover Range Rover P38 (1995-2002).

It starts:

After acquiring the P38 that was right for me, I was only 2 weeks into ownership and one of the biggest known problems of the P38 reared it's ugly head: the heater core and it's o-rings leaking inside the cabin. Luckily, the task of changing out the o-rings on a Left Hand Drive (LHD) Range Rover is fairly easy using the shortcuts posted on the RangeRovers.net forum, but after sucessfully changing them I discovered that the coolant leak was actually coming from the heater core itself. After frantically searching RangeRovers.net and it's associated forums, I found a brief mention that the entire dash removal (along with the steering column) was NOT necessary for LHD vehicles if you "cut a bracket and bend something out of the way"... but... there were no detailed specifics or photos to elaborate the procedure further. So I decided to document my adventure of changing out the heater core without removing the dash to show the shortcuts involved with this task.

Read the full article here.