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The brake hose was the problem. I replaced it and now I brake in a straight line.
Thanks for your help!
Ok, after looking around I found this link. https://www.ericthecarguy.com/faq/solving-brake-problems/brake-hose-problems
I do recall seeing something like that on the right brake hose, so I’ll replace that and see if that fixes it.Thank you very much for your help!
Hi Eric,
I have a 92 Chevy 305 that doesn’t heat up. The temperature gauge only goes up to about 135-140 degrees and the heat coming from the air vents is lukewarm. The water pump and t-stat were replaced a couple years ago and I thought that could be the reason I wasn’t getting any heat. I removed the 195 degree T-stat and checked it in a pot of water and it worked just fine. Reinstalled it and bled the cooling system as per your instructions, but I didn’t get any better results. I’m very perplexed as to where the engine heat is going, and am wondering what to do next.
Thank you for your videos, I’ve learned a lot from them!
The fan on this motor is belt driven, therefore it turns based on the speed of the motor. It is not controlled electrically.
I thought that might be the case, but if that were true I would expect to get hotter air out of the heater…
Well I did just what I described in my last post and I didn’t get any improvement. I don’t know what the source of the problem is so I guess I stop here until I find someone who has had this problem and solved it.
Thanks for all your feedback, but this still remains a mystery to me.
Well, I just removed the thermostat and set it in a pot of water and heated it up on the stove, using a cooking thermometer to measure the temperature. Looks to me like the 195 degree thermostat works perfectly. I’m really at a loss for what could be the problem now. I’m going to top off the motor with coolant, reinstall the thermostat, use the spill free funnel and fill the cooling system and attempt to bleed the air out and see if anything changes, though I’m afraid it won’t.
Today was attempt number 2 at bleeding the cooling system. Unfortunately I didn’t get the desired results. I followed the directions in the video, except I didn’t rev the engine up to about 2000 rpm. I learned from my first attempt at bleeding the cooling system that the coolant likes to erupt from the radiator when the rpms return to idle.
The problem I seem to be facing is that the engine doesn’t seem to warm up enough for the thermostat to open and circulate the coolant so that I can bleed the air out of the system. In my first attempt of bleeding the system I did things wrong and lost quite a bit of coolant. But after that happened the temperature gauge did climb, and was reading about 210 degrees. I think what happened in that instance was the coolant was no longer circulating and therefore warmed up. Before attempting to bleed the cooling system today I did fill it up, but today it only would stay around the 135-150 degree range.
Any insight you have regarding this is greatly appreciated.
Well I attempted to bleed the cooling system yesterday but I think I did it wrong. I’m going to try again and see if I can get the desired result.
Thanks for your response, I’ll look at that link.
I suppose the thermostat could be bad, but even after it was replaced it didn’t warm up, which makes me think it’s something other than the thermostat. I don’t know if the fan is running all the time, but when I have looked it has been running. It seems kind of odd to me though that the fan running all the time would keep the temperature just below 150 degrees all the time.