Famine
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Arg, well I'll tell you guys the story of my car so you can understand my problem.
Ok, I find my car is leaking oil from the sump gasket, badly. I ring up holden, they say $1000 to replace. I think ^#@& that, and ring up a local mechanic (good bloke, very reasonable), he says he could do it for half that, and also some other random things while he had the car lifted up. He did the engine mounts, harmonic balancer + belt, also also attempted to fix the radiator leak which he thought would be fixed by a new pump (even though the pump in it is < 6 months old). He replaced the sump gasket and changed over the harmonic balancer and belt, but when he came to fixing the cooling system, he found it wasnt the pump, it was leaking into the manifold (not good!). He replaced the inlet manifold gasket and it seems to hold pressure now under a pressure test. My car feels great now, the new engine mounts make the car shake a whole lot less, however..... now my water temp light comes on all the time! The car is running hot! It never did it before the service, and I just cant figure out why it would be running hot, if anything it should be running cooler!
As of now, there is no coolant leak to my knowledge (and no oil leak thank god), but my motor continues to overheat.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why it might be hotter after a service? Is there anything the mechanic could have accidently screwed up while he was replacing the inlet manifold gasket or water pump? Im really lost as to why this is happening and I really dont want my motor to overheat, I've spent enough money already.
btw the service he performed costed $700, and he had my car for a week, and put a LOT of hours into it (things kept going wrong as he was working on it), so he is very reasonable in not charging a fortune for it, but still the problem remains.
Any ideas guys? :b:
Ok, I find my car is leaking oil from the sump gasket, badly. I ring up holden, they say $1000 to replace. I think ^#@& that, and ring up a local mechanic (good bloke, very reasonable), he says he could do it for half that, and also some other random things while he had the car lifted up. He did the engine mounts, harmonic balancer + belt, also also attempted to fix the radiator leak which he thought would be fixed by a new pump (even though the pump in it is < 6 months old). He replaced the sump gasket and changed over the harmonic balancer and belt, but when he came to fixing the cooling system, he found it wasnt the pump, it was leaking into the manifold (not good!). He replaced the inlet manifold gasket and it seems to hold pressure now under a pressure test. My car feels great now, the new engine mounts make the car shake a whole lot less, however..... now my water temp light comes on all the time! The car is running hot! It never did it before the service, and I just cant figure out why it would be running hot, if anything it should be running cooler!
As of now, there is no coolant leak to my knowledge (and no oil leak thank god), but my motor continues to overheat.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why it might be hotter after a service? Is there anything the mechanic could have accidently screwed up while he was replacing the inlet manifold gasket or water pump? Im really lost as to why this is happening and I really dont want my motor to overheat, I've spent enough money already.
btw the service he performed costed $700, and he had my car for a week, and put a LOT of hours into it (things kept going wrong as he was working on it), so he is very reasonable in not charging a fortune for it, but still the problem remains.
Any ideas guys? :b:
