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Drive about 2 miles and the temperature gauge goes into the red. Pull over, wait over an hour for the engine to cool; then add water. Ready to head home, but as I was waiting at the intersection a nice co-ed with a cell phone in her ear decides to turn left in front of an oncomming car. Big enough impact to tear a wheel off the coed's car. I'm sitting there watching this car spining end to end and heading my way. Fortunately with the wheel ripped off the car it doesn't roll too good so it comes to a rest about 4 feet in front of me. Fortunately no injuries, but I wind up waiting 45 minutes to give a witness report. On the way home again; temperature gauge pegs again! So I pull over and call AAA. Tell them I need a tow on a tilt up. No problem someone will be there within an hour. 55 minutes later a tow truck shows up and the driver agrees that his hook truck won't do the job. He calls in, then keeps me company for another 45 minutes while waiting for the tilt up truck. Pulls the car onto the truck and starts to strap it down. Twang - one of the hold down straps breaks. Driver spends 15 minutes figuring out what to do. After some creative problem solving we are on our way. The 30 minute trip home took about 4 hours.
Get home and since the engine is cool I go ahead and pull out the thermostat. It is obvious that the housing had been removed before so I didn't have the horror adventure that I've read about on this board. Put the old thermostat into a pot of water along with the new one I had recently purchased to do PM this weekend. Put the heat to the pot and the new one opened right on schedule as measured with a digital thermometer. Old one never did open. Atleast that gives me hope the new thermostat will solve the problem.
Good things:
My temperature gauge is working
I wasn't involved in the accident
Hopefully I didn't cause damage to the engine by not running it while it was hot.
The wife wasn't driving the Midget today.
It's a simple fix.
Thanks for letting me share, you can return to your normal programming.
Get home and since the engine is cool I go ahead and pull out the thermostat. It is obvious that the housing had been removed before so I didn't have the horror adventure that I've read about on this board. Put the old thermostat into a pot of water along with the new one I had recently purchased to do PM this weekend. Put the heat to the pot and the new one opened right on schedule as measured with a digital thermometer. Old one never did open. Atleast that gives me hope the new thermostat will solve the problem.
Good things:
My temperature gauge is working
I wasn't involved in the accident
Hopefully I didn't cause damage to the engine by not running it while it was hot.
The wife wasn't driving the Midget today.
It's a simple fix.
Thanks for letting me share, you can return to your normal programming.
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