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[Blueberryyum02]

Ok I'm at the time where I have to start replacing plastic coolant parts, the first was the lower radiator hose. $144 later radiator decides, it want to me replaced (was the original radiator from 2002) came here got the removal procedures, I guess I missed the part where it said now drop the radiator out my dumb self tried to pull it from the top, so 4 of those 8 hours was cursing, and thoughts of causing great bodily harm to the engineer who designed the car, but I managed to get the radiator in from the top, cause I had not hoist or ramps, but I was proud to get it back together.


Did the bleed procedure right I guess cause I have no over heat issues, but I notice when I turn the A/C on the fan does sound like a damn jet, so I think it might be still air in the system. If I can make till the rest of the parts come in I think I'm going to leave it be.

 

[joegr]

If it's hot out, then the fan should get pretty loud at idle with the AC on, but not at maximum speed usually.
If you were smart, you would also replace the degas bottle, the upper radiator hose, the thermostat housing, engine fill cap, and the other gen I plastic piece in front of the thermostat housing.
Otherwise, you'll probably be doing all of those one by one sometime this year.

 

[Blueberryyum02]

Yea I have all that on order now. I noticed the plastic piece that connects to the upper radiator hose was starting to fall apart, and the way it look all burned and blistered, is how the coolant tree look. So yes I need that for sure. And there's a small pin hole leak in the plastic tee of the upper radiator hose. And the degass bottle I'm changeing just because it over heated on me twice. And plastic that thin cant handle them temps with out getting distorted in kind of way.

 

[jjcool00]

And there's a small pin hole leak in the plastic tee of the upper radiator hose.

Same exact thing happened to mine couple weeks ago... pos.

 

[LS4me]

Engineers don't are about repairs. They only care about making things work, or making sure the car can be assembled in the quickest, easiest manner.

Don't blame engineers, blame economics.

 

[RigsLS]

"blistered" that's the word I was looking for when attempting to describe how the inside of both my Tstat housing and outlet tube looked like on the insides.

You'd wipe it dry and you could see liquid coming from the center of the blisters. brown in color compared to the rest black looking inners.

Prone to failure. Blisters suck!

 

[Blueberryyum02]

Yea I know the engineers had nothing to do with it I just needed a title to put on, the person I was cursing out. Lol.

But I found the reason why the fan was going into high, some how I didn't screw the degass bottle cap on all the way. Now I still smell A slight hint of coolant burn off, meaning the degass bottle have cracks in it. But I kind of thought that since it over heated twice, and it looks to be the original.