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Whatever you do, steer away from the cooling system flushes unless you are confident in the rubber components in the system. I ran flush through my first car (85 200sx) and kept finding new leaks for months after that, huge PITA.Tzvier wrote:Thanks for the advice Terry.
It's an 05 SE Off Road 4x4, just under 100k.
As far as I know, the water pump. has never been replaced.
It has the rear heater, and he heater core could be all gummed up as well. Guess that will be my next project, figuring out how to resolve that.
+1, and most likely your water pump is fine. You probably just have a persistent air bubble in there.eieio wrote:heater cores are probably OK thenTzvier wrote:I dont really think I'd need to do a flush. The fluid that I drained from the rad/hoses while doing the T-stat change looked almost brand new.
yepdisallow wrote:+1, and most likely your water pump is fine. You probably just have a persistent air bubble in there.
Or your new thermostat is not functioning properly.
I ended up using this...Dispatch8 wrote:What method did you use? I'm starting to have the same cold air problem!