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

["Travis Goodwin" <tgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll take a look and see. It will be easy now that the BTTF kit has been
stored for the winter.

The engine overheat was not bad. I caught it just as it began to overheat
(it was idling at the time). I shut it off and a minute or two later the
radiator top cracked and the steam poured forth. It made for a neat-o
effect
with the BTTF stuff on the car.

The radiator was fine everywhere else, but the plastic had weakened and
couldn't take it anymore. 

I flushed the system (actually it flushed itself) and replaced the hoses.
I
also had to wrench the seized water pump bleed screw off. No damage to the
pump or its threads but the outside of the screw looks like a dog's been
gnawing on it.

Ps.

I wanna send my condolences to you on the loss on the torsion bar bid. I
lost out too. :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Coe [mailto:Whalt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:14 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] You guys are gonna die...
> 
> > 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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