..who designed the thermostat housing on the 7M-GTE, I will kill him.
I got up this morning to go help out QYV with his MKIV. Nothing major, just wiring up the primary wires and relays, etc for the dual in tank Walbros on his T-66 car. Should have been a pleasant day.
However, my MKIII's temp gauge has been behaving oddly for the last few days. Sudden temp spikes, etc.
The cooling system on this car is solid. New factory radiator, brand new Toyota fan shroud (complete with bottom piece), Good set of aux fans, good fan clutch on the mechanical fan, etc.
So I suspect that the thermostat has gone bad bad. I figure before I leave, I'll just pop the T-stat out to see if it goes away and pick up a new thermostat on the way back. 5 minute job - right?
WRONG
One thermostat housing bolt came off with no problem, the other one snapped.
God dammit! Who the fuck uses an 8mm bolt to hold ANYTHING together? Fuck.
So I drill out the end of the bolt and put an easy out in it. Snap. Easy out breaks off in the bolt...
Now I've got a piece of hardened metal in there. I'm never going to drill that out - double fuck!!!!
So now I've removed:
Radiator
Fan Shroud
Aux Fans
Belts
Hoses
Fan
PS Reservoir
CPS
Turbo coolant lines
Sensor wires
etc....
In order to get the damned housing off the block and replace it with a spare that I have. I have to do this because it appears the damned bolt has completely fused to the fucking housing, the damned piece of easy out won't come out and even if it did I don't have an 8mm tap handy...
This is not what I wanted to spend my Saturday doing...
::grumble::
I got up this morning to go help out QYV with his MKIV. Nothing major, just wiring up the primary wires and relays, etc for the dual in tank Walbros on his T-66 car. Should have been a pleasant day.
However, my MKIII's temp gauge has been behaving oddly for the last few days. Sudden temp spikes, etc.
The cooling system on this car is solid. New factory radiator, brand new Toyota fan shroud (complete with bottom piece), Good set of aux fans, good fan clutch on the mechanical fan, etc.
So I suspect that the thermostat has gone bad bad. I figure before I leave, I'll just pop the T-stat out to see if it goes away and pick up a new thermostat on the way back. 5 minute job - right?
WRONG
One thermostat housing bolt came off with no problem, the other one snapped.
God dammit! Who the fuck uses an 8mm bolt to hold ANYTHING together? Fuck.
So I drill out the end of the bolt and put an easy out in it. Snap. Easy out breaks off in the bolt...
Now I've got a piece of hardened metal in there. I'm never going to drill that out - double fuck!!!!
So now I've removed:
Radiator
Fan Shroud
Aux Fans
Belts
Hoses
Fan
PS Reservoir
CPS
Turbo coolant lines
Sensor wires
etc....
In order to get the damned housing off the block and replace it with a spare that I have. I have to do this because it appears the damned bolt has completely fused to the fucking housing, the damned piece of easy out won't come out and even if it did I don't have an 8mm tap handy...
This is not what I wanted to spend my Saturday doing...
::grumble::