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Whatever you do,
DON"T EVER TAKE A PARTS GUY WORD WHEN THEY SAY "SURE THIS IS FOR YOUR MODEL" !!!!
It's not! It never is! It's the wrong shape, wrong colour, wrong material, hey :wtf: is that a Ford logo on the package???? AAAAHHHHHHH!!!
I did a head swap about two months ago and have had temperature guage prolems ever since. I've replaced EVERYTHING! New Rad (needed one anyways...) new hoses, thermostat, thermostat housing (woops ... that was my fault), and last Friday, a rad cap. I've even bought a temp sender unit incase it was just reading B.S.
I was making a 3 hour trip into Ottawa to go to my own University Graduation when I picked up the new rad cap at the dealer and poped it on. Well look at that! The temperature is actually behaving for a change .... Well at least for the first 20 minuits. Doing 130 km down the 401 when I hear PPBBBSSTSTTTSSSPSSPPSBBSBsssssss and I imediatly am driving in my own personal ummmm FOG?? I thought at that moment that perhaps I had sprung a small coolant leak and should pull over and investigate. No wait ... that's not what I thought ... it was more like :bad-word: After a few quiet moments I thought i should probabley look under the hood and this is where I see coolant
uke: out of my thermostat housing seal.
Flashback to two freaking months ago when I bought my new thermostat and gasket. This dosn't look like the old gasket? This new one is rubber, not paper. Are you SURE this is the right gasket??? Yup! Pay for it and take 'er home. And I did.
WORST DECISION EVER!!!
All of this became perfectly clear as I stood at the Parts counter yet agian ordering a new thermostat gasket and look ... it's a paper gasket! Did I mention that this was at a TOYOTA DEALERSHIP both times! But hey, nobodys perfect and I understand this ... and they generously offered to give me the new $3.00 gasket for free!!! I however got stuck with the bill for the tow truck, another $18.00 juge of Toyota red antifreeze, and got to change it myself in freezing rain, in a parking lot ... just in time to get to my grad soaking wet.
So what's the moral of the story???
DON"T EVER TAKE A PARTS GUY WORD WHEN THEY SAY "SURE THIS IS FOR YOUR MODEL" !!!!
By the way, my cooling system works like it is brand new ... oh wait ...it is!
DON"T EVER TAKE A PARTS GUY WORD WHEN THEY SAY "SURE THIS IS FOR YOUR MODEL" !!!!
It's not! It never is! It's the wrong shape, wrong colour, wrong material, hey :wtf: is that a Ford logo on the package???? AAAAHHHHHHH!!!
I did a head swap about two months ago and have had temperature guage prolems ever since. I've replaced EVERYTHING! New Rad (needed one anyways...) new hoses, thermostat, thermostat housing (woops ... that was my fault), and last Friday, a rad cap. I've even bought a temp sender unit incase it was just reading B.S.
I was making a 3 hour trip into Ottawa to go to my own University Graduation when I picked up the new rad cap at the dealer and poped it on. Well look at that! The temperature is actually behaving for a change .... Well at least for the first 20 minuits. Doing 130 km down the 401 when I hear PPBBBSSTSTTTSSSPSSPPSBBSBsssssss and I imediatly am driving in my own personal ummmm FOG?? I thought at that moment that perhaps I had sprung a small coolant leak and should pull over and investigate. No wait ... that's not what I thought ... it was more like :bad-word: After a few quiet moments I thought i should probabley look under the hood and this is where I see coolant
Flashback to two freaking months ago when I bought my new thermostat and gasket. This dosn't look like the old gasket? This new one is rubber, not paper. Are you SURE this is the right gasket??? Yup! Pay for it and take 'er home. And I did.
WORST DECISION EVER!!!
All of this became perfectly clear as I stood at the Parts counter yet agian ordering a new thermostat gasket and look ... it's a paper gasket! Did I mention that this was at a TOYOTA DEALERSHIP both times! But hey, nobodys perfect and I understand this ... and they generously offered to give me the new $3.00 gasket for free!!! I however got stuck with the bill for the tow truck, another $18.00 juge of Toyota red antifreeze, and got to change it myself in freezing rain, in a parking lot ... just in time to get to my grad soaking wet.
So what's the moral of the story???
DON"T EVER TAKE A PARTS GUY WORD WHEN THEY SAY "SURE THIS IS FOR YOUR MODEL" !!!!
By the way, my cooling system works like it is brand new ... oh wait ...it is!