mattsk8 Posted April 22, 2014 Report Share Posted April 22, 2014 OK. In before watchspeed.com ... Back to car talk Uno mas... I love watches, I wish I had more money. My dream watch (in reality, I could dream bigger) is a Tag Heuer Calibre 1887, but at ~$4k I doubt that'll happen any time soon. For now I have a Tissot PRC200, and a Nautica watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattsk8 Posted April 22, 2014 Report Share Posted April 22, 2014 Back on target... My old one was cracked and wouldn't tighten anymore. It recently started to gurgle and spew about a quart out whenever I shut the car off. At first I was afraid my car was overheating and my temp gauge wasn't reading, or that I had a head gasket issue, but this seems to have fixed it. I just did it this morning and topped off the coolant, so far no gurgling when I shut it off. Time will tell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dick Dastardly Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Pro.....HA! He is talking about coolant caps not dildos. Besides the caps are pressure rated to leak at a certain pressure, its not a airlock dingus Not pro Mat, "Genius". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin. Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Pro.....HA! He is talking about coolant caps not dildos. Besides the caps are pressure rated to leak at a certain pressure, its not a airlock dingus ok, still feel better about having it this way came from the man Russell himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Betty Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 ok, still feel better about having it this way came from the man Russell himself Pressure increases the boiling temp of fluids. Pressure is good. Coolant pressure is FAR FAR less than cylinder pressure and won't cause the head to lift or head gasket to go. Most likely cause of HG failure? detonation or thermal deformation of the head/block. Just use the cap how it was designed to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 I love the way you explained it, it's like I'm in fluid mechanics again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattsk8 Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Pressure increases the boiling temp of fluids. Pressure is good. Coolant pressure is FAR FAR less than cylinder pressure and won't cause the head to lift or head gasket to go. Most likely cause of HG failure? detonation or thermal deformation of the head/block. Just use the cap how it was designed to be used. Exactly. If I had an issue like a bad heater core or head gasket, I'd like to know rather than just letting the coolant blow out of the overflow, or I wouldn't even know I had an issue because it wouldn't build pressure like it should. In situations like that I'd fix the issue, rather than try to limp it along. If I had a head gasket issue that could get solved by loosening the cap, eventually it would go anyhow. Cap seems to have fixed it, 2 days now and no gurgling. The original cap was cracked when I got the car, it just kept getting worse to the point that it wouldn't tighten anymore. Temp gauge always reads fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt b Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 On topic: drove it all of 2 miles. A nice change after the 1,200 miles I put on it this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Last week: Tinted it, then put around 1,000 miles on it this weekend. Washed and detailed it this morning before work and will hopefully be installing new tires on the new 18s and putting those on along with the new downpipe tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted April 24, 2014 Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 i opened the trunk. looked at the axles to install.. closed the trunk and drank a beer instead. sits for another week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattsk8 Posted April 24, 2014 Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 Picked my daughter up from church yesterday, about 1/2 mile after we pulled out it bogged down, then took off again. Pulled up to a red light and it stalled, wouldn't start. AAA towing back to my house and into my garage. Pulled the plugs to check spark and when I turned it over gas came out of cylinder 2 like old faithful. Pulled the fuel rail and injector 2 is stuck wide open, spraying gas everywhere w/ the injectors unplugged. Ordered a new injector today (local parts store, $50 for a remanufactured injector they ordered and will have in a couple hours, hope its the right injector). I sincerely hope it didn't hydro lock and bend a rod or break a piston ring. I'll do a compression test before I put it all back together. Really beginning to hate this car. Never had issues as crazy as this thing has. I'm committed to this heap of swedish crap now, I'll never get my money back out of it. If it bent a rod or broke a ring, I'm swapping w/ newer R engine and forever I will make this car pay for my frustrations. My wife calls it Christine now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burn-E Posted April 24, 2014 Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 Welcome to the club. Misery loves company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Betty Posted April 24, 2014 Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 I love the way you explained it, it's like I'm in fluid mechanics again I also have many componet engineers nearby that I can check with to make sure I'm giving bad info. Perks of the job I guess. For me. I continued to listen to the low speed groaning coming from the front end of the Jetta. I replaced the RF wheel bearing 2 months ago but after 4 weeks the noise is back and worse than before. This time however it doesn't seem to change when I'm turning left or right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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