b8er
12-04-2005, 02:34 PM
long read: beware
well some of you may have read it was my b-day a few days ago and we ended up having the party at my work. during the drive home from work my car was acting quite weird and i noticed hey its getting hot, pulled over to take a look at the motor to see if i could find out what it was and what did i find... yea the rad hoses were frozen, i went to sqeeze them and you can hear ice, like the insides of the hoses were frosted, imeditaly i knew i was a moron,
see about 3 months back i had an overheating problem, turn out my thermastat housing cracked for some un-knowen reason and anyways i would drive for a min. stop. but some water in the car, let it sit for 10 min and then continue and do it over again, it took me 3 hours to get home which unualy takes 20 min tops.
back to me being a moron, .... one i fixed the overheating problem when i got home i thought everything was cool and drove the car like always till last night. now im a moron because i never put an antifreeze in the motor once everything was fixed , it was full and didnt even cross my mind so i was freaking out that i may have cracked the block (water expands when it freezes) so here i am outside in my driveway at 10pm in -15 degree weather tyring to get my car to thaw, impossible i know.
so im looking over the car decided what i was gonna do and noticed what looked like a crack on the plastic part of the top rad hose, so i wiped it to make sure it wasnt just dirt or somthing and nope its a crack so i figureed sweet i gotta get the hose off to fix that some how. i go to pop the hose off and bam the whole thing breaks right of inside the rad hose, so now im just pissed and its getting colder so i decide i gotta pull the rad, luckly enought i have a brand new spare rad so im pulling it off and start to lose feeling in my fingers so i go into the shop and find a heater and stick it under the car , put a blanket over top of the motor under the hood and a bunch of blankest rolled up underneath the car and hope to god it holds some heat inside the engine bay.
jump to today...... wake up at 8:00, i wanna get as much time in on this thing as possible. finish pulling the rad, just had to pull of the bottom hose, swap in the new rad, pull some coolant into it, start the motor and start praying the blocks ok. i was looking around and everythings cool no leaks so i continue with the antifreeze and everythings going good, temp gauge is coming up, rads bubbeling, im starting to think im on the home strecth and its still fairly cold out so i hop inside the car to get a little heat blowin on my hands and whats that.... yup no heat, heatercore is foze, so i let the car run, through the heater on inside the car hoping to get some heat on the heartercore and throught everyhing and 10 min with the heater inside the heatercore thaws out and everythings perfect, fans come on, thermostat opens, heatehr blows air, god somebody must love me up there, aha, long story but i figure i had to tell you guys
moral of the story, always have antifreeze in our car
well some of you may have read it was my b-day a few days ago and we ended up having the party at my work. during the drive home from work my car was acting quite weird and i noticed hey its getting hot, pulled over to take a look at the motor to see if i could find out what it was and what did i find... yea the rad hoses were frozen, i went to sqeeze them and you can hear ice, like the insides of the hoses were frosted, imeditaly i knew i was a moron,
see about 3 months back i had an overheating problem, turn out my thermastat housing cracked for some un-knowen reason and anyways i would drive for a min. stop. but some water in the car, let it sit for 10 min and then continue and do it over again, it took me 3 hours to get home which unualy takes 20 min tops.
back to me being a moron, .... one i fixed the overheating problem when i got home i thought everything was cool and drove the car like always till last night. now im a moron because i never put an antifreeze in the motor once everything was fixed , it was full and didnt even cross my mind so i was freaking out that i may have cracked the block (water expands when it freezes) so here i am outside in my driveway at 10pm in -15 degree weather tyring to get my car to thaw, impossible i know.
so im looking over the car decided what i was gonna do and noticed what looked like a crack on the plastic part of the top rad hose, so i wiped it to make sure it wasnt just dirt or somthing and nope its a crack so i figureed sweet i gotta get the hose off to fix that some how. i go to pop the hose off and bam the whole thing breaks right of inside the rad hose, so now im just pissed and its getting colder so i decide i gotta pull the rad, luckly enought i have a brand new spare rad so im pulling it off and start to lose feeling in my fingers so i go into the shop and find a heater and stick it under the car , put a blanket over top of the motor under the hood and a bunch of blankest rolled up underneath the car and hope to god it holds some heat inside the engine bay.
jump to today...... wake up at 8:00, i wanna get as much time in on this thing as possible. finish pulling the rad, just had to pull of the bottom hose, swap in the new rad, pull some coolant into it, start the motor and start praying the blocks ok. i was looking around and everythings cool no leaks so i continue with the antifreeze and everythings going good, temp gauge is coming up, rads bubbeling, im starting to think im on the home strecth and its still fairly cold out so i hop inside the car to get a little heat blowin on my hands and whats that.... yup no heat, heatercore is foze, so i let the car run, through the heater on inside the car hoping to get some heat on the heartercore and throught everyhing and 10 min with the heater inside the heatercore thaws out and everythings perfect, fans come on, thermostat opens, heatehr blows air, god somebody must love me up there, aha, long story but i figure i had to tell you guys
moral of the story, always have antifreeze in our car