Gargamel
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2001 4 cyl 2.3
Last night was the first night in months its gotten a bit cold. Imagine my surprise that I turned the selector to heat, and received NO HEAT.
Did a bit of research today and found this to be a somewhat common problem to this engine, although the solutions range from the strange thermostat\all in one\ too expensive housing, the water pump, to a clogged heater core.
Just got done putting a large amount of money in this thing's suspension so I'm looking to try to fix this one myself.
I noticed last night that the heat would change from lukewarm to cold consistently in a matter of minutes, with the temp gauge changing from a little hot to normal at the same rate.
This morning I did some testing and while I could never get the temp gauge to waiver from normal, I never got warm air out of the heat setting.
I've posted some pics of the cooling system with some general layout questions as well as questions about the layout coming off of the upper radiator hose to the heater core.
I noticed that once at operating temp, some hoses seemed to be cooler than they should be going to the heater core.
(Please see pics)
Any ideas off hand? (I'll post some pics of further investigation in a bit.)
Thanks for any help....
Last night was the first night in months its gotten a bit cold. Imagine my surprise that I turned the selector to heat, and received NO HEAT.
Did a bit of research today and found this to be a somewhat common problem to this engine, although the solutions range from the strange thermostat\all in one\ too expensive housing, the water pump, to a clogged heater core.
Just got done putting a large amount of money in this thing's suspension so I'm looking to try to fix this one myself.
I noticed last night that the heat would change from lukewarm to cold consistently in a matter of minutes, with the temp gauge changing from a little hot to normal at the same rate.
This morning I did some testing and while I could never get the temp gauge to waiver from normal, I never got warm air out of the heat setting.
I've posted some pics of the cooling system with some general layout questions as well as questions about the layout coming off of the upper radiator hose to the heater core.
I noticed that once at operating temp, some hoses seemed to be cooler than they should be going to the heater core.
(Please see pics)
Any ideas off hand? (I'll post some pics of further investigation in a bit.)
Thanks for any help....
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