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Well I have a 1993 ford escort pony. When I am stopped and try and put car in reverse, I push in the clutch and slide shifter back to reverse gear and it will not drop in gear. I have to pump the clutch numerouse time’s to get reverse. And latley its been getting tougher to put in any gear. I am leaning towards slave cylinder but any other suggestions. Also when driving I turn on heat and it will blow hot air then it will blow cold than hot then cold and so on. What could that be
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If the cooling fan is not operational, you will see the engine start to over heat at idle, then cool down again while driving. You should really get the cooling system functioning correctly.
Quoted From dreamer2355:
If the cooling fan is not operational, you will see the engine start to over heat at idle, then cool down again while driving. You should really get the cooling system functioning correctly.
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The car doesn’t overheat at all. I have 2 temp gauges. The one the car came with and one I put in. It stays in normal spot all the time well little below norm. That’s why I think thermostat is stuck open. You guys think that could be.
2 weeks ago when it started to not blow heat I checked the coolant and it was low so I filled it up thinking that that would fix it. Nope. So I checked for leaks and vaccume problems and came up with nothing. Now I don’t know everything about cars like you guys do. I take all advice and run with it. Tommorow I am going to hook the fan up to switch and. Will just have to manually turn on. Unless you know of another way to hook it up
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The heat is better when driving when I come to stops and idle it goes away. That’s what has me baffledIf the coolant was ‘low’ it is leaking or burning off.
You could pressure test the cooling system as well as using a block tester,. A block tester will tell you if you have a head gasket issue.
Definitely give it a block test if you are losing coolant, and since you have the test kit. That won’t effect your trans though, so I would watch the clutch diagnostic vid I posted, and see if you are experiencing similar issues. Good luck bud.
I just tested head gasket. The chemicle went from blue to yellow. So there for the head gasket blown. Woohoo. Here comes fun. Just wondering I found a complete engine for $350 do you all think I should do a swap. The one I found has 61k miles and my motor has 230k. Lol
You may try checking your clutch hydraulics for leaks, and maybe bleeding them. Here is a video covering that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-m5F0zEvyo
For your heating condition, I would start by bleeding the cooling system. Here is a video on the procedure. Ignore the bleeder screw portion, as I don’t think you have one on your car. You don’t need it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpXgAJ1gjU
Good luck.
I checked hydro’s for leaks and there are none. And I flushed the cooling system and heater core. Problem still persisted. Just wondering if thermostat could be fried. The heater core doesn’t leak and I don’t smell antifreeze when I turn on heat. I’m just lost for ideas
Does the heat come and go in relation to the throttle? For instance, as you accelerate, do you lose heat? I’m wondering if you have a vacuum operated blend door, and are getting weak vacuum to the actuator.
As to your trans, have you ever had the clutch replaced? Here’s a video on testing it:
It still sounds like you have air trapped in the cooling system.
Does the vehicle over heat? Do you cooling fans work? Do you have coolant circulation?
Here is a video Eric made on diagnosing cooling system overheats –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUzOTnsW … t3EVppbf88
As for the clutch issue, did you try to bleed it? You could loosen the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder and have a helper depress the clutch to see if you even have fluid flow.
Keep us posted!
The car doesn’t overheat. There is a cooling fan but it was unhooked by my father when he owned car. My friend and I tryed to find the plug for fan with no luck. Thinken it was removed. I allready bought slave cylinder.. $10 so why not. Just wanted more info so I know if I shhould get other parts. Or buy trans
Back the truck up man. To me you are describing the classic symptoms of air in the cooling system, try bleeding the system as suggested and show in the video that was posted and see if the problem still persists, if it does feel the hoses going into the firewall when the engine is warm and the heat is on, if both hoses are hot you have flow through the core and I would look to the blend door in the HVAC for the problem, if one is hot and the other cold then you may have a restriction in the heater core and you may consider flushing it out.
As for the clutch problem have you checked under the dash for leakage of the push rod coming off of the clutch pedal because what you describe there are the classic symptoms of a hydraulic failure and to be honest my bets are on the master cylinder.
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