Cigar lighter working? It shares the same fuse as the OBDII port to read trouble codes. Check the fuse either way, the lighter element may be burned out. Get the codes and write down the numbers FIRST, otherwise you are trying to diagnose issues blind.It did come on but when I went to have it checked they said there was no power to the plug under the dash so they couldn't check it.
I recently had my radiator and hoses replaced now my poor trucks temp gauge goes all the way up to almost overheating and back to normal while driving.
No the oil wouldn't of messed up the way it runs if its a lil over especially the way you says your runs. If the plug wires are in the right order then that eliminates that running like crap. It seems like you need your fuel pressure checked but the whole thing of your check engine light not coming on is weird. Your vehicle should be throwing codes and having a code reader to read them codes would help in the direction to take to fix it.
How about we start from the beginning. How did this happen? Did all of a sudden it run like crap or did it gradually start doing this more and more and the check engine light never came on and you never had the codes read?
Op replaced her radiator and hoses--why? Probably because she was losing coolant and having overtemp issues.
Op replaces rad/hoses. The problem doesn't go away. In fact, it gets worse. Now the car is overheating and losing so much coolant that the rad has to be refilled every trip.
Hello? There's either a giant puddle of coolant under the car every morning, or the head gasket is blown.
I'm voting for the head gasket.
You don't necessarily need a new engine, but you can't tell until you open it up. Replacing the head gasket is a moderately difficult job that should take someone with backyard mechanic skills about 2 days to complete, and about $300 total. A shop will charge $1500-$2000.
Personally, I'd be inclined to scrap the car on the grounds that it has a SOHC, which is just a ticking time bomb in all ways.
I found head gasket sets on rockauto.com for under 100.00... Any opinions?
I didn't see in any of your posts if you had the OHV V6 or the SOHC V6. If you have the SOHC V6 then the camshafts will have to be timed after the head gasket(s) are replaced. That normally takes a special tool kit that's fairly expensive ($150 used) and not often available to rent. It's also a rather complicated process that must be done correctly. It's not a good project for a novice.