rickb928
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- June 17, 2003
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- City, State
- Gilbert, AZ
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '00 V8 XLT
Sometimes, make myself weep.
Finally my heater control valve disintegrated. Broke it a few months ago and jbwelded it together to get o9ut of walking to the store again during a radiator replace/flush. I shoulda just replaced it, but I thought it would be expensive. It is not.
Two questions:
1. Does anyone have a good picture of the heater hose routing? I'm pretty sure I have the engine hoses reversed. Symptom is during refill it would NOT 'burp' until I turned on the heat, running cold on all hoses and then the gauge rising to H. Then it burped out a lot of coolant, finally settled down. This engine seems very, very hard to burp the cooling system.
2. Very common after a cold start to see the gauge rise 2/3 - 3/4 the way to H and then drop below normal. It seems the thermostat is sticking, but this is the THIRD thermostat to try and solve this problem over the past 3 years. Is this possible a symptom of reversed heater supply hoses, or what? It runs cool enough, sometimes rising a bit on the highway.
Oh, and 3. No matter the heater settings, it doesn't seem the actuator on the heater valve actually moves. What's up with that? A/C and heat work perfectly except for the blend door problem, where I have to cycle the climate control from cold to hot and then cold again, and listen to the blend door creak into position like an old horror movie...
It seems a shame to miss something simple and overheat my EX, it's a '95 with 305K on it and really is holding up well enough. I need some good advice here. Phoenix is hard on cooling systems in another month or two, and I don't want to be another blown engine on the 101. Help!
Finally my heater control valve disintegrated. Broke it a few months ago and jbwelded it together to get o9ut of walking to the store again during a radiator replace/flush. I shoulda just replaced it, but I thought it would be expensive. It is not.
Two questions:
1. Does anyone have a good picture of the heater hose routing? I'm pretty sure I have the engine hoses reversed. Symptom is during refill it would NOT 'burp' until I turned on the heat, running cold on all hoses and then the gauge rising to H. Then it burped out a lot of coolant, finally settled down. This engine seems very, very hard to burp the cooling system.
2. Very common after a cold start to see the gauge rise 2/3 - 3/4 the way to H and then drop below normal. It seems the thermostat is sticking, but this is the THIRD thermostat to try and solve this problem over the past 3 years. Is this possible a symptom of reversed heater supply hoses, or what? It runs cool enough, sometimes rising a bit on the highway.
Oh, and 3. No matter the heater settings, it doesn't seem the actuator on the heater valve actually moves. What's up with that? A/C and heat work perfectly except for the blend door problem, where I have to cycle the climate control from cold to hot and then cold again, and listen to the blend door creak into position like an old horror movie...
It seems a shame to miss something simple and overheat my EX, it's a '95 with 305K on it and really is holding up well enough. I need some good advice here. Phoenix is hard on cooling systems in another month or two, and I don't want to be another blown engine on the 101. Help!
