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| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
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Apr 18 |
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Clutch pedal no longer provides resistance, clutch won't disengage, what likely failed? +1 nice write-up of the resolution |
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Apr 17 |
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Electrical problems due using battery charger as a jump starter I've charged my car enough to start it by hooking up my laptop's 12V brick to it for less than an hour, and that's not even the proper charging voltage of 13.5-14V you should be using, and it was pretty dead beforehand too. If a couple hours with a proper car battery charger (even a low-amp one) isn't enough to start your car, the battery is probably bad enough it needs to be replaced. |
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Apr 15 |
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Trunk lid release WD stands for water displacer. WD-40's purpose is to get moisture out and keep it off of something; it makes a very bad penetrating oil for most places you want penetrating oil. |
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Apr 15 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil Or, maybe the best bet is just taking out one spark plug at a time and running it with the plug out, so the local pressure near the engine (which can't immediately propagate to the radiator cap) has less to fight against pushing sealer back to one cylinder when the adjacent one fires... |
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Apr 15 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil Hmm, I realized too the 13psi in the cooling system is not going to be enough to force anything back across the HG when it's taking up to 150psi or so (engine compression) to force the gasses out across the HG...and even then, only sporadically. Is there any way to get pressure that high on the cooling system side? Certainly the radiator can't handle it and the hoses probably can't either, but if the hoses were taken off, the openings blocked and clamped tightly, and a compressor hooked up to where the upper hose belongs, maybe it would be possible..? |
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Apr 15 |
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Trunk lid release WD-40 is not penetrating oil; quite the opposite... |
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Apr 15 |
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Can I reprogram my car for LED turn signals? Hmm, I always figured thats what flashers were, but maybe it's a type of circuit breaker that operates from heating up...? |
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Apr 15 |
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Safe resistance between alternator and battery? I don't know either but it's copied from the site that was linked. |
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Apr 15 |
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Can I reprogram my car for LED turn signals? Hopefully the computer is just monitoring the rate of the on/off cycle to give the indicator. If the whole cycle were controlled by the computer, wouldn't get faster like it's doing. |
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Apr 13 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil I actually tried it, and loosening the plugs didn't drop the pressure in the cooling system noticably. I left the vehicle sitting for a few hours to cool, then put the plugs back in. Can't tell yet if it helped though... |
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Apr 12 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil Yes, whatever I do I'll almost surely change the oil once this is all done. It's cheap and easy and stupid not to do it... |
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Apr 12 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil One other idea I just had...this sounds like it could go bad, but what would happen if I pressurized and heated the cooling system by running the car for a while, then took out all the spark plugs? The idea being to get the pressure in the cooling system to force the sealant back through the HG into the (now depressurized by removing the plugs) cylinders... |
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Apr 12 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil It didn't say so anywhere in the instructions; coolant moving into the overflow tank and not coming back (due to the system being pressurized by combustion gasses) was the original symptom, so seeing that nothing moved was a good sign. I think I'm going to have to go with your idea of leaving it in a couple days and see if things get better. |
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Apr 11 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil So far, mixed results. :( The overflow tank level did not rise during the 50-minute idling step, but high pressure did build up, and moved coolant into the overflow tank after I took it for a fairly light test drive. I only used half the bottle originally, so after letting it cool down I've added the other half and running it again. We'll see what happens but I'm not too hopeful right now... |
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Apr 11 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil By the way, if it really is better at bonding to metal surfaces, that sounds like a good reason to make sure to get the inside of the system really clean before using it. I +1'd your comment but I think it might even make a good answer in itself. |
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Apr 11 |
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Getting the best results sealing head gasket leak with Blue Devil It is a question, yes - I was just asking if there's anything else I should know to do to get the best chances of success. |
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Apr 11 |
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Overheating & coolant loss in 1998 Subaru Outback Thanks for all the help. The pressure ended up being positive, not negative - it was not very extreme with the vehicle cool and hard to tell the direction, and I just observed the hissing/gargling sounds. So I took it to a radiator shop I trust and they redid the combustion leak tests, apparently better than I did, and found that the problem is combustion gasses in the cooling system. I'm going to open a new question related to that. |
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Apr 10 |
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car wont start or stay running after a jump I don't think this would cause the voltage drop OP described. |
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Apr 10 |
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Should I buy a car or get my current one repaired? In terms of doing the math, you also need to consider insurance. If you're buying a new car with a loan, you're going to have to have full coverage insurance on it, and you're going to pay a lot for that. If you have an old used car, you're free to have just liability, or with the much-lower value on the vehicle, full coverage is much more affordable. Even if the payment is only $350, you might easily be paying $500 a month once you add insurance (depending a lot on where you live). |
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Apr 9 |
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Overheating & coolant loss in 1998 Subaru Outback I couldn't find an exact match for the hose, but I cleaned it out well and replaced the cap. Neither helped. I'm adding some more details in the question... |
