New to the forum and wanted to share a project I have been working on. I bought it with the engine knocking and shaking, no coolant in it and stuck in hard limp home mode. But it only had 149k and I felt there was a good car in there somewhere...
Had to trailer it home. Trimmed lower rad hose as all coolant leaked out with hose split from over tightened clamp. I just cut out bad part, first fix.
Next I fixed upper engine rattle with new oiler O-rings and fixed 4 blown caps. yup, I simply used bic pen caps and I epoxied all of them in place.
Then T-stat was stuck, boy was that a PITA!!! Least she runs cool now.
Had to trailer it home. Trimmed lower rad hose as all coolant leaked out with hose split from over tightened clamp. I just cut out bad part, first fix.
Next I fixed upper engine rattle with new oiler O-rings and fixed 4 blown caps. yup, I simply used bic pen caps and I epoxied all of them in place.
Then T-stat was stuck, boy was that a PITA!!! Least she runs cool now.