Re: [DMCForum] You guys are gonna die...

["Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>]

> The car is performing better! No more acceleration problems. I think
it's
> doing better than it ever has.

Travis,

Did you do anything to the water pump or top of the engine?  If so, maybe
you fixed a vacuum leak.

But then if overheating had anything to do with it.... check this:
Look in the port on your drivers side valve cover where you put new oil
in.
There should be a white (was white at one time) round plastic grate/filter
in the bottom of the hole that stops large things from falling in there.
Unless you have a habit of pouring chunky new oil in the engine there is
no
use for this grate other than to judge how badly an engine has overheated.
On good engines it looks like new.  On older engines it gets kind of
beige/brown looking.  If an engine has been severely overheated then it
sags
really bad.  Sometimes they fall out (or someone removes them for any
reason), so you might find it suck in the valve cover somewhere.  I did a
valve adjustment on a car that this grate was apparently missing on.  We
found a resinous blob in the port that I think used to be this grate (what
else could it be?) but who knows?

Walt


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