ok, so...
i'm a member of the EGR-LESS club and thus i don't have an EGR pipe therefore a plug was used where the egr conencts to the exhaust manifold...
being the ghetto i am, the thing came off on the highway(friday)...it made so much noise...biggest exhaust leak ever...
when i stopped, i found the plug chillin where the clutch slave cylinder is...
it was blazing hot
i went home driving wihtout the plug in...
waited till the motor cooled down and installed plug....fixed...NO!
next day (saturday), comming from the mall at 7 pm, the plug came off on the highway again, but this time i heard it under the car..so bye-bye plug...
kept driving it like that thinking "tomorrow i'll go to home depot and find a new plug" WRONG...
the car overheated....o stopped...and found out that the coolant overflow tank had splitted in half!! i was like "WTF?"
it hat no water in it ofcourse...let it sit for 10 mins then started again i drove home..iw as 5 mins away....
went to sleep....
next day (sunday 31st) i went to disocunt autoparts looking for a plug..i ad no isea what to get so i just guessed....a 1/2" copper plug...
tried it, but it didn't fit..the thread had gotten ****** up...
next, 2 hrs later i go to home depot...
i buy me another 1/2" copper plug and a 1/2" galvanized steel plug..
since the copper plug was exactly the same as the one i had bought at autozone, i tried the galvanized one first....it worked...i tighened it as best as i could...problem fix...
now, i go home.car over heats again
thinking is the coolant tank, i buy some plastic piece of s*** glue..it didn't work...on the first overheat..the stupid thing split open again
i leave...
i go downtown and the car keeps overheating...i say..****!
is new years eve and i can't drive my car....
it overheated over 20 times...
next...new years day..(monday, 1)
i'm thinking now i'm fuked...nothing is gonna be open...to my surpise..autozone is open...i hit it and buy a radiator cap thinking my was ****** up
it fixed the problem..until i hit the highway..it overheated once again..then 2 more times before i got home
i say...last resort...i'll change the stupid thermostat...but i don't think the thermostat is bad..
hit autozone again...luckyli...even tho i mentioned it was a MAZDASPEED (we know they never have any parts for our cars) they say they have 2..prolly they reused the same model of thermostat for another car...thnk god!
i buy it..i installed it..and if it didn't work, i was gonna beat the s*** out of the car until the engine blew!
tada...it ******* worked!
gosh...i'm just hoping tomorrow it won't do it again..
the moral of this story is: don't take shortcuts...everytime your car overheats...just change everyhting coolant related...
1) coolant (50/50)
2)radiator cap
3)thermostat (you don't need a gasket!!)
and save yourself from ruining your new years eve...
i was home alone when it hit 12pm...sad but true
pm me for a time refound if you think you wasted your time reading this
i'm a member of the EGR-LESS club and thus i don't have an EGR pipe therefore a plug was used where the egr conencts to the exhaust manifold...
being the ghetto i am, the thing came off on the highway(friday)...it made so much noise...biggest exhaust leak ever...
when i stopped, i found the plug chillin where the clutch slave cylinder is...
it was blazing hot
i went home driving wihtout the plug in...
waited till the motor cooled down and installed plug....fixed...NO!
next day (saturday), comming from the mall at 7 pm, the plug came off on the highway again, but this time i heard it under the car..so bye-bye plug...
kept driving it like that thinking "tomorrow i'll go to home depot and find a new plug" WRONG...
the car overheated....o stopped...and found out that the coolant overflow tank had splitted in half!! i was like "WTF?"
it hat no water in it ofcourse...let it sit for 10 mins then started again i drove home..iw as 5 mins away....
went to sleep....
next day (sunday 31st) i went to disocunt autoparts looking for a plug..i ad no isea what to get so i just guessed....a 1/2" copper plug...
tried it, but it didn't fit..the thread had gotten ****** up...
next, 2 hrs later i go to home depot...
i buy me another 1/2" copper plug and a 1/2" galvanized steel plug..
since the copper plug was exactly the same as the one i had bought at autozone, i tried the galvanized one first....it worked...i tighened it as best as i could...problem fix...
now, i go home.car over heats again
thinking is the coolant tank, i buy some plastic piece of s*** glue..it didn't work...on the first overheat..the stupid thing split open again
i leave...
i go downtown and the car keeps overheating...i say..****!
is new years eve and i can't drive my car....
it overheated over 20 times...
next...new years day..(monday, 1)
i'm thinking now i'm fuked...nothing is gonna be open...to my surpise..autozone is open...i hit it and buy a radiator cap thinking my was ****** up
it fixed the problem..until i hit the highway..it overheated once again..then 2 more times before i got home
i say...last resort...i'll change the stupid thermostat...but i don't think the thermostat is bad..
hit autozone again...luckyli...even tho i mentioned it was a MAZDASPEED (we know they never have any parts for our cars) they say they have 2..prolly they reused the same model of thermostat for another car...thnk god!
i buy it..i installed it..and if it didn't work, i was gonna beat the s*** out of the car until the engine blew!
tada...it ******* worked!
gosh...i'm just hoping tomorrow it won't do it again..
the moral of this story is: don't take shortcuts...everytime your car overheats...just change everyhting coolant related...
1) coolant (50/50)
2)radiator cap
3)thermostat (you don't need a gasket!!)
and save yourself from ruining your new years eve...
i was home alone when it hit 12pm...sad but true
pm me for a time refound if you think you wasted your time reading this
