Recent content by KennyKaraoke

I'm running 215°-222° on my 20 mile commute. Same every day. Is it possible the torque lite app combined with a $25 OBD2 scanner is just showing temps a bit higher? Even a 5% tolerance put those temps down to the range JoeGR stated. Temp goes to 219°, drops to 215°. If it hits 222° at a stop...

Great! That's exactly where's she's running. 183° t-stat Thanks Joe!

This probably happened as well. I cleaned the drain off really good before starting the bleed. Checked occasionally, nothing. By the time the engine warmed, coolant was dripping out. Could have been my initial issue. Anyway new petcock arrives Monday.

So, I just re-did the bleed and it went fine, had to give it some gas to get the air out initially, closed the bleed, 5 minute idle, opened and it bled a small amount of air, then did the 2,000 rpm til heater ran hot, engine steady at 194°. Ordering new petcock right now. Guess I'll go through...

Failing open? If the t-stat fails closed, then you overheat. Started another thread a while back and read in yet another thread that the t-stat fails open thus coolant always flowing and not allowing the engine to warm properly. I didn't see any issue with warming time after replacing and the...

Long warm up time.

Followed procedure exactly as written. After 8 minutes, still no coolant coming out of the heater bleed. Nothing is leaking anywhere. Plastic parts replaced, new t-stat, new degas bottle. After 15 minutes, gave it some gas and finally got a steady stream out of the air bleed. By then it...

can't happen, all new coils and plugs two weeks ago, unless of course the failed coil already caused the problem, is the number 1 coil the original culprit?

I myself have also been having a slow responding thermostat issue, could that be connected to the ball joint as well :lol:

In my case its possible nothing too much "out of the ordinary" actually could be true. My mechanic asked who did the front end work, and I know the PO did quite a bit. Turns out the ball joints were not fully installed properly and loose. So LSFrank was correct that is was a wrench and a jerk...

Nah, the car has driven perfectly straight since we owned it, this was a result of an impact to the front suspension. Unless of course said jerk crawled under there overnight and adjusted those rear toe links, while the car was in my garage. I crawled under yesterday morning, nothing was loose...

Just did all new brakes the week before and yes, the car drove and braked perfectly straight. Even heavy acceleration and hard braking, straight. Then Wed. morning I left for work (after the wife took the kid to school), wheel was turned, maybe even closer to 30°. About an hour ago, I just did a...

Actually disabled for the last couple miles home. I did the brakes in low 30° weather, didn't think I'd be messin' with the front end in single digit temps. Hopefully something simple will show itself. If not I got 30's coming Monday.

Some more info from the drive home. The car is parked now and I be digging into it tomorrow. But on those 30-40mph left curves, the advancetrak actually turned on after straightening out and on a right curve it almost didn't want to straighten back out with a slight noise. I'll check everything...

You had to include that quickly part, did ya, lol. I hate my alignment shop (franchise and too many misdiagnosed/unneeded repairs). I hate my secondary alignment shop (franchise, he simply got too busy, lost the I care about my customer part, 15 years ago, great guy). I dislike my newest...