How long will my rebuild last if the waterjacket is bad/blown ?
10-13-06, 02:29 PM
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How long will my rebuild last if the waterjacket is bad/blown ?
How long will my engine last with the bad waterjacket ? How much you think it would cost to get someoneto rebuild and fix this ?The engine has 500 miles on the breakin
I just recently had my car looked at by someone here and upon leaving my coolant buzzer went off to add coolant, and he found out there was alot of air in my coolant system. Ive overheated the car several times before because of a bad clutch fan and the car doesnt over heat anymore, but i know air is getting in.
update - i know there is alot of air in the system because my sensor for my watertemp gauge mounted downwards into the tstat neck registers no temp even when the car is warmed up , it takes a little while. This is because there is only air where the sensor is at until it gets more filled up.
I just recently had my car looked at by someone here and upon leaving my coolant buzzer went off to add coolant, and he found out there was alot of air in my coolant system. Ive overheated the car several times before because of a bad clutch fan and the car doesnt over heat anymore, but i know air is getting in.
update - i know there is alot of air in the system because my sensor for my watertemp gauge mounted downwards into the tstat neck registers no temp even when the car is warmed up , it takes a little while. This is because there is only air where the sensor is at until it gets more filled up.
10-13-06, 02:32 PM
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Well, if you actually have a bad water seal and are getting enough water into your engine to burn good amounts of coolant, then not long. If you let the car sit for any length of time you are going to totally rust out the inside of the engine...everything related to the rotor with the bad water seal is going to corrode badly and be useless...Water leaks never fix themselves, they always get worse.
10-13-06, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Cake
Well, if you actually have a bad water seal and are getting enough water into your engine to burn good amounts of coolant, then not long. If you let the car sit for any length of time you are going to totally rust out the inside of the engine...everything related to the rotor with the bad water seal is going to corrode badly and be useless...Water leaks never fix themselves, they always get worse.
Is there any kind of test i can do to know for sure if they are really bad ?
Ive been driving the car but i really need to know what to do, im trying to get the car registered soon and id like to be able to drive my car.
10-13-06, 02:38 PM
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as far as how many times i overheated the car when the clutch fan was bad, id say about 3 - 6 or more times, (i kept trying to bleed it thinking it was cuz air was getting into this system) ..but new clutch fan fixed the oveheating but now i still have air getting in
10-13-06, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron Cake
How often do you have to top up the coolant?
it seems like the coolant slowly goes down, i bet id have to fill it ofen if i drove it everyday
but what the guy did that fixed it was just popped my radiator cap and let out all the air, now the coolant buzzer is off
i did the bubbles test befoer a while back and got no bubbles..
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10-14-06, 04:21 PM
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today i filled the coolant and it was pretty much empty on the filler neck and radiator fill spot, i tried to keep filling it and later ended up breaking the bleedoff screw inside the radiator , i cant get it out and now looking into a koyo radiator
10-14-06, 05:43 PM
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also is it possible for the car not to smoke out the exhaust or overheat while the coolant seal is bad ?
i talked to felixwankel88 and he said his car didnt smoke or overheat when his coolant seal was bad, but he was losing coolant
also, i just recently did an oilchange, there was no coolant in the oil
i talked to felixwankel88 and he said his car didnt smoke or overheat when his coolant seal was bad, but he was losing coolant
also, i just recently did an oilchange, there was no coolant in the oil
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10-15-06, 07:41 AM
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can someone please help, if this car really does have a bad coolant seal then who knows what i am going to do.
Shelling out 1000-1500 dollars once and having to do it again just to replace the oil seals seems kind of rediculous, i already invested way more than the car is worth as it is
Shelling out 1000-1500 dollars once and having to do it again just to replace the oil seals seems kind of rediculous, i already invested way more than the car is worth as it is
10-15-06, 11:05 AM
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