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 > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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