Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs"
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Having looked at this car, while itself a nice looking ride as far as body style goes, and one of the better looking GM vehicles of the period, this one requires way more than it appears to need at first glance.
I think the ONLY saving grace here is the frame hasn't been totally rotted out, in fact, it's still largely intact and solid, the body, not so much.
Being that it began life as a local car to Bradenton area, then up in Michigan, it's got rust from both top and bottom. Top from being exposed to the salt air if it's been on the beaches enough times or has lived ON the beach for a while, but not well kept rinsed over time. Then it's been salted among the bottom side by being in the rust belt before coming back here.
It almost requires a clean total body replacement, seeing how rotted out the windshield is, and the bubbling/rust showing on other parts of the roof and A pillars. Likely some of the upper structure may be compromised.
Anyway, would be good to know the outcome of this one. It's a cool car I agree. Totally agree, the car likely has 170+K and smoking and badly leaking from many orifices.
BTW, love your descriptions and word usage, not to mention your goofy sense of humor.
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@JohnWilliams-wr3pc Yup, had that happen to my Mazda P5 back in the summer of '12, thankfully, no damage other than the thermostat itself needing to be replaced. Chooched along fine until the nipple to the upper hose came off, I JB welled that back together and that lasted a while longer until the hose would not stay on the upper bib, so at that point, the radiator got replaced, and yep, the car began to overheat, but what saved the say was running the heat full blast so the heater core took some of the pressure off the main radiator, and that saved my motor.
Still drive that car some 10 later with 193K+ miles on the clock and it still runs fine.
As you say, when the thermostat closes, it'll spew out of any orifice it'll find, that means where hoses get clamped to the motor etc and that's what happened when I opened my hood when the car overheated that first time in 2012.
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@Flyinghook Except he's not always using a torque wrench, so the verbal click. I don't know if Eric O was the first, but he's the first I've heard do that, and even now, he barely does it anymore, and when he does, he simply makes the sound, or uses an actual torque wrench. It was him that I first heard of this, then other mechanics began to follow suit, or so it seems, and I personally think it's over used now.
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