Thread: Need some serious help before i damage my car.

thats good. you had a load of air trapped in the lim.

Did anyone suggest possibly drilling your t-stat and it will auto-purge the air ?

i did mention the fact they exist..... my cars got a drilled t stat, no need to bleed it really. when i did straight coolant came out asap.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggs

i did mention the fact they exist..... my cars got a drilled t stat, no need to bleed it really. when i did straight coolant came out asap.

the one and only benefit to a drilled t-stat

Justin drilled it before we assembled the motor. I could hear it purge air into the overflow tank.

That is a lot, make sure to keep an eye on the overflow so you don't get more air back into the system, but it should come out. You will have to keep an eye on that overflow bottle for a few days depending on your drive.

Scotty you and I grew up during the same time, back in the early 80's my summers were either spent out with my Dad while he worked on aircraft or at the library with my Mom since that was where she worked. I used to know the Dewey Decimal system like the back of my hand. I wish schools these days had Vocational schools, I grew up in a town of about 40K and our school had Marine repair where I learned to TIG, Metal shop, Auto mechanics, Drafting (boy I am glad I didn't waste my time with that, although I started designing with Acad 12 lol), we had Electronics (worst electronics teacher EVER, very funny stories about him, like the time he connected a lamp cord to a Sparkomatic 6 band EQ then proceeded to plug it into the wall. I went to the principle over that one). We also had Autobody and FFA stuff there were a lot of things to learn about that were practical. Now those programs it seems are gone. But I digress.

Sorry to take over your thread Shawn but it sounds like your getting close. If you really want to learn what is going on with these cars your going to want to get a device to see live data like we mentioned previously, it will tell you more than you need to know but it's almost better than a box full of tools sometimes. Buy a set of tools at Harbor Freight, you don't need a super expensive tool set to get the job done in most cases. Look for their super coupons and 50% off sales.

Jeff

Shawn..

FWIW I think you'll have your car fixed up in less pages of thread than Jeff did.

Luckily.. we freed up Jeff from fixing his car...and now he's super helpful. And if you ever have a vacuum line question, he's your guy.

my hs had a metal shop. like they did cast work, welding, you name it. we had mechanical drawing, that was a cool class, printing also, full blown wood shop, and a auto shop.

all that stuff is long gone.

we still have the tech schools you can go to if you want, its free too. and they cover it all, from plumbing class to electrical to auto and auto body, to hair and makeup for the girls, and any queers lol

I can see I will never live down having bought a car with an intermittent Ford check valve installed where a standard T was supposed to be . Well at least we don't have a bunch of guys that couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a paper bag mucking it up in this thread.

Jeff

It's memorable... what can I say. We all have to be known for something and there's tons of "gems" that I did or had occur while working on cars. Like the time I killed my perfectly good motor during a cam swap with it sitting on an engine stand.

Bill....tell me a story (in my best little kid voice)

James, go toward the light....

Look in the relay panel, they are listed there, by number, name and location.

Then follow along with how to bleed the system and such and look at the thread mentioned on how the cooling system should work. What year is your car, we are talking about an 05 here and I am not familar with the previous years as much. The 04+ has the listing of all the fuses and relays, with a description of each and a number to where they are.

As far as fusing I am thinking they are going to be the larger fuses near the top and not the mini fuses.


I still haven't been able to see a schematic as to why there are 3 relays for 2 fans. My thought has been 1 relay for low, through a resistor and one each for full battery voltage but have yet to confirm.

Jeff

fill it 3/4 the way up. then watch its level. hot and cold. it should rise and fall if your cap is working right.

as coolant gets hot it expands and it needs to go some where, so it goes to the "over flow tank" convenient name right?

when the engine cools off, it sucks the coolant back in from the over flow tank.