Cooling system question

fstlane88

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Apr 5, 2005
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Ok, I was wondering if I could cap off the heater hose port that comes from the back of the head on the intake side. There is a hose that connects to it and goes into the firewall, mine was leaking at the firewall. So I removed it and thought since I'm going to be removing the heater core and not using heat anymore does it need to run to the firewall?

Here's some pics of what I'm talking about...

Port on head, screwdriver is touching it..
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Port where hose enters firewall..
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