Zach's 2019 Winter Refesh, Questions with heater tubing Options

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This weekend I parked the car in the work bay of my garage.

I kinda broke it during a drive. Or rather the door stay on the passenger door broke, the door opened too far, and fucked up the paint along the leading edge of the door (down to metal) and then pulled the door out of adjustment as I tried to close it before I understood what had happened.

So, on the slate:

First the stuff that has to get done:

1. Fix the door stay.
2. Do something to fix the paint on the leading edge of the door before it rusts.
3. Drain fuel and pull the tank.
4. Restore the cabin blower fan, and all of the cables and HVAC crap that goes along with it.
5. Fix or replace the windshield wiper motor.
6. new windshield wipers.
7. Clean the longs (heater tubes).
8. Smoke or pressure test my exchangers.
9. Get all the heat stuff working on the engine bay side of the car.
10. Buy and install the drainage lines and funnels that go to the rain tray.
    
    And then the stuff that would be nice t have done:
11. Maybe new tires.
12. restore a stock steering wheel and replace the Dino that on the car.
13. adjust my doors so the windows fit better to the car's body.
14. plug up any odd holes in the body that might let wet salty water in (like the holes cut into the longs to run the AC lines back when the car had air conditioning.)

The wipers have never really worked right, and looks like they draw a HUGE amount of power when I have to use them. Which I had to this weekend, almost immediately after the door stay broke and exposed steel along the leading edge of my door. On a day that was not supposed to rain, and ended up raining 1/2 the day.

My voltmeter (which at this point is pretty accurate) shows about 13.7 volts when the car is running, and drops down to 11 volts while the motor struggles to move the wipers. For the past several years my response has been to heavily rain-X the windshield and try not to drive if I think it will rain. This does not work for me if I want to take the car on trips (like Amelia Island).

Adding heat stuff back in has been a long time coming, and has very little to do with keeping me warm. The car is flat out dangerous to drive on humid MidAtlantic evenings, or any time there is rain. The windshield really fogs up.

So my goal there is to get the heater plumbed to the windshield vents.

For the trip to Amelia, its about 2000 miles round trip. I've been a few times now - and each time I've gone its been snowing to beat the band when I left PA. I'm leaning towards flat towing the car instead of driving it. House is booked at Ameilia, so now I just gotta get there.

Zach