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COOLANT POURING OUT OF BOTTOM OF CAR DRIVER
The driver said maybe it’s the thermostat. I called the shop and had them tow it back. My lower radiator hose completely ruptured! Then, as I’m sitting at the traffic light, there is a loud explosion and billowing steam and all the coolant drains out on the street. Maybe they forgot to plug the temperature guage back in or something. I noticed the temperature guage wasn’t showing any reading. They had to take off the a/c compressor and the bracket. Then the whole engine will have to come out to drill it. If I try to do the whole manifold, I'll probably wind up shearing off a bolt head in an inconvenient location. That was pretty desperate, but I didn't know what else to do! But it then went in far enough to hold the cover. After about an hour trying to screw in that one bolt, I just cut the thing in half and screwed in with the threads crossed. It's in an awkward spot and it must have just kept going crooked. For some reason I couldn't get the bolt in the thermostat cover to thread in right. I'm not making any money when I'm playing shade tree mechanic.
Maybe it is not as big of a job as I'm imagining, but this is my only work truck and I already blew two days messing around with it. So I'm not sure if I would be able to get that out of the way and a/c is its whole own can of worms. I never had the desire to take off an intake manifold before! It kind of has the a/c compressor over it too.