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Got a hold of the place that fixed it. I hooked it up correctly. Figured I would comment on the fix so if anyone else has the issue, they know. If you have 2 wires, don’t use the one marked single wire. 🙂
Eh, it was about half a gallon, it was about that to refill it. the catch pan had a little over 2 liters so, yea. half a gallon. It was in the 50s F when I worked on it, we are in a bit of a warm front this week. This morning it was in the 30’s and she had good steady heat going to work, so maybe it just needed to settle.. For 20 bucks I bought the heater valve, I’ll have it in the garage for brakes anyway.
I flushed this system out about 6 years ago, what I drained out was pretty clean for the age. I am just flushing the system now a half gallon at a time. 🙂
i replaced the thermostat and now its the same. warms up correctly, but I get initially great heat and then it fades…. could it be the heater valve, that is all I can think of…
yea, that is my thought, now I just need to get an OEM honda thermostat, I am seeing nightmares with non-oem units.
thanks! so a bit of ptfe on the large bolts and blue thread lock on the small bolts. sounds great, thanks!
Thanks! I thought it would be much higher than that. I got Moogs for it, I think they have a nylon locking nut, otherwise I just ung them until they are tight and I can put the pin in..
LoL, I don’t have an impact at my house yet, need to buy a compressor still.
Seeing its carrying my new born son, I want to make sure I tighten it correctly. 🙂
yea, it has 150k on it or I would buy the AC Delco, Spectr is what I was looking at. It did have Dexcool in it for about 60k until it clogged the heater core, so it probably clogged part of the radiator to, so probably not a bad idea to change it anyway.
Yea, I’ll flush it, I do have a power bleeder to make it easier, but the honda attachment is just so messy…
yea, its being towed. just had the thought that if I crimped it off, I could get it home. AAA has terrible customer service. American Express offers it to card holders to a point, so for the cost of what AAA would have been without all the fees to use it same day, I am getting it towed.
The former first responder said to me, bad idea.. The redneck in me said, it’ll work….
I had AAA until April when I left it lapse, went to renew, to get the Plus I had before, is 84, plus a 10 dollar fee for new members, plus 35 to use it the same day. but with that 35 to use it the same day, you only get basic coverage, so they only tow it 5 miles then you have to pay the difference… I get it they do this to keep people from joining then cancelling, but I was a member that never used and didn’t cancel.. Their customer service is horrible, they don’t empower their people to do anything but throw corporate b.s. at you.
With my FWD cars, I put the new tires on the front and make sure my rears at least have decent tread. If you drive with no or little tread on any of your tires, you will have issues like everyone is stating.. But FWD cars eat front tires. If my rears are good and I buy 2 new fronts, then I’ll stick them upfront. If you have 2 nearly bald tires your spin out in bad weather regardless were they they are.
What I do is put 2 new on the front and for winter driving, toss in some weight in the back.. (weight in the back of a FWD car? you are all thinking). Well most FWD cars are front heavy, I had a FWD caddy that was great in the snow, but the back was so light it would come around in snow new tires or not. So I tossed about 150 lbs back there, car stuck like glue then. A little weight to equalize things doesn’t hurt, I would pass my friends in SUVs in the parking lot as they were stuck.
Now my questions is, what do you do with an AWD car.. my fronts are a bit low, do I rotate them so the front has the better ones on it?
Yea, cars aren’t designed to “fail” all at once. But you know when you get rid of a car, in theory anyway. It’s when the cost of monthly/yearly repairs outweights a new car payment. For us, that is longer down the line than somebody who has their cars repaired.
If you have to pay 300 for a water pump to be replaced, and then 500 for a shop to replace 2 wheel bearings, that car will be traded in, often at the time these bills hit, “cause I can get something new without the problems.” Now we would toss in a water pump for 30 bucks plus antifreeze, and 200 in parts for the wheel bearings, knowing both items are wear items. But when that parts bill starts to add up and every month, I am working on it, its time for it to go. Thus Mean Time To Failure kicks in. But at 135k, can you really complain…