Yesterday I did the 3 hour highway drive to my parents place for the weekend, and fell in love with my car all over again. I decided there's no way I could sell it at the moment, so this morning I started ripping into the dash. I didn't do the whole dash removal, that's way too scary, I just took out the center dash part. I took photos all the way through in case I couldn't put it back together, but it's almost in one peice again. I could see the heater core leaking around one of the pipes going into it, so I sprayed it with no-leaks, then put some Selly's Knead-It all around the connection. Took me about 5 hours, and it's obviously not a long-term solution, but it didn't leak a drop in the half-hour I drove it with the heat on and dash apart.

Now to just install this factory alarm module I've had around for a while... i'm highly suspicious it's not going to work.