Hello. My name is Dan, and today I doomsday prepped

[KaiserRolls]

Maybe to re bleed the cooling system? And do a burnout maybe

[Bassboy3313]

It's hard to find good, honest shops for anything which is why I was curious for when mine gets painted. Yours looks damn good!!

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[B C]

Verifying the cooling system is bled is a legit reason to put a couple miles on the car.

[Daggerty]

If it was a rusted out Chevy cruze LTZ+ do you think they would've taken it for a test drive?

[Jdesign]

Looks great. White cars rule. If there was no damage done in the 3 miles it moved I wouldn't question it, probably just stoked to have an E30 in their shop.

[straight6pwr]

uh oh. just got home, smelled some coolant in the last mile and the temp gauge was above half. #saturdayinjeapardy

[KaiserRolls]

straight6pwr said:

uh oh. just got home, smelled some coolant in the last mile and the temp gauge was above half. #saturdayinjeapardy

Ask Ben if you can borrow his temp gun

[Earl]

Is that coolant spritzed all over there? Heater hose spring a leak?

[B C]

Can you at least pinpoint the source of the leak? Or does the manifold have to come off

[GunMetalGrey]

straight6pwr said:

uh oh. just got home, smelled some coolant in the last mile and the temp gauge was above half. #saturdayinjeapardy

KaiserRolls said:

Ask Ben if you can borrow his temp gun

Yeah, you need to make sure that it's actually overheating and not just the cluster. Chances are it's not actually overheating. Did you check the temp with a gun yet to make sure it's overheating? Because it may be a loose nut on the cluster. Did you verify the temp yet? I would probably hit it with a temp gun to ensure that it's actually overheating.

[m42b32]

Nooooo, maybe it wasn't bled properly and got hot?

[KaiserRolls]

Pretty much anytime you want to do something on these cars the manifold has to come off

[KaiserRolls]

That spray pattern is odd. Coolant spider hose dealio may have split?

[straight6pwr]

lol @ temp gun. the car did not overheat at all. was between 1/2 and 3/4 mark when I got home.

got up early and looked at it before work today.

KaiserRolls said:

That spray pattern is odd. Coolant spider hose dealio may have split?

correct.  spider hose split @ the heater core inlet pipe.

i ordered one (and intake mani gaskets) with overnight shipping, but i don't think I'll have time to dive in and get the manifold off to replace it.  without removing the manifold, i SHOULD be able to pull both heater core hoses from below and just connect them together (temporarily bypassing the heater core) to get me by for Saturday. i was able to pull them when I replaced my heater core, I just don't know how much room/slack they have for connecting them together.

if anyone knows what internal size those hoses are off the top of their head, it would help on my lunch time quest for a fitting at the hardware store. 5/8" or 3/4" is my guess.

[KaiserRolls]

If you have the tiniest hands in the history of the universe you could probably do it with the manifold on lol. I am not that sneaky.

I can try and sneak home for lunch and take some pics

[Daggerty]

Just take the manifold off it's not that bad.

I have a car that can be cannibalized for parts by your car lmk if you need anything.

[Daggerty]

This was probably because of the body shop driving it around.

[B C]

E30 Heater Core is 3/4" Heater hose

[KaiserRolls]

Snap saves my lunch plans hooray. Also contributes to the type2 epidemic

[straight6pwr]

Daggerty said:

Just take the manifold off it's not that bad.

I have a car that can be cannibalized for parts by your car lmk if you need anything.

i have literally 2.5 hours of day light when I get home on Thursday to get this fixed. i've never pulled an m50/s50 manifold, so I know it will be slower than that the first time around.

Snap said:

E30 Heater Core is 3/4" Heater hose

thank you sir!!!!!

KaiserRolls said:

If you have the tiniest hands in the history of the universe you could probably do it with the manifold on lol. I am not that sneaky.

I can try and sneak home for lunch and take some pics

like i said, i got the heater hoses on/off when I did the heater core from underneath so i'm crossing my fingers (i have big hands, btw)