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Appears to be exactly what I needed. Thanks college man! This gives me a pretty good outline of the process.
Appears to be exactly what I needed. Thanks college man! This gives me a pretty good outline of the process.
Thanks for your response Moonlight. I guess I should have mentioned that I have seen this video before. The subframe removal however, since it was being replaced too, makes his approach a little different than I assume I’d encounter.
When getting into specifics here is what I’m wondering:
Eric did a video on a power steering rack in a 2002 Cavalier recently. Being that the Grand Am was also a GM product like the Cavalier, is it similar to that process? From what I saw between my wife’s Grand AM and that Cavalier in the video, there are a lot of similarities between the steering components.
Would I have to drop the subframe/cradle partially as Eric did in the 2002 Cavalier video or is there more clearance on the Grand Am?
I suppose I could get the answers to my questions by just jumping into it, but I always like to have a little background first.
Thanks.
Thanks for your response Moonlight. I guess I should have mentioned that I have seen this video before. The subframe removal however, since it was being replaced too, makes his approach a little different than I assume I’d encounter.
When getting into specifics here is what I’m wondering:
Eric did a video on a power steering rack in a 2002 Cavalier recently. Being that the Grand Am was also a GM product like the Cavalier, is it similar to that process? From what I saw between my wife’s Grand AM and that Cavalier in the video, there are a lot of similarities between the steering components.
Would I have to drop the subframe/cradle partially as Eric did in the 2002 Cavalier video or is there more clearance on the Grand Am?
I suppose I could get the answers to my questions by just jumping into it, but I always like to have a little background first.
Thanks.
I actually had a similar problem with my 05′ Honda Civic. I know it’s a completely different vehicle, but I want to share anyway. I must have bled the cooling system about 5 times using the method Eric had shown in his how to video for Bleeding a cooling system, and I was still getting a gurgling sound coming from right behind my dash where my heater and air cond. controls are when I’d accelerate.This would usually improve as the engine warmed up, but could still be faintly heard. I had no issues with overheating either. I thought I was going crazy!
I had looked all over for a solution to this and finally found a post someone had made on another forum explaining that this comes up a lot with my particular vehicle, but I even had a friend who owns a new Chevy HHR tell me he has a similar thing going on with that vehicle too.
Anyway, I finally got rid of the gurgling and here is how I did it:
First thing I did was turn my temperature control inside the car all the way to hot, with the fan off.
Then, when my engine was cool enough to do so, I took the radiator cap off, and used one of those Lisle spill free funnels and the proper attachment to attach the funnel to the radiator filler neck.
I then started the engine and just let it idle until it reached normal operating temperature, after which I filled the funnel with some coolant. You don’t need to fill the entire funnel obviously, but put a decent amount in there. You’re not looking to really add this coolant to the system permanently, just for this procedure. The spill free funnel is great because you can just take what you didn’t use and put it back in the bottle.
At that point I jacked up the car on the passenger side using the tow hook on that side at the front. I went all the way to the point that the wheel was off the ground on that side.
Finally, I started increasing the engine speed and then began squeezing all the heater hoses, especially the ones I had toward the back of the engine bay. Not in a constant way, but sort of in a massaging way. Just squeeze for a second and let go, then move up the hose until you almost reach the end, or as far as clearance allows. You should see air bubbles in the coolant in the funnel when you squeeze. These hoses get really hot so it’s best to use some kind of protective gloves when doing this.
I would increase the engine speed periodically throughout doing this, and also made sure the cooling fans came on two times.
After going over all the hoses about 5 or 6 times, and having the fans come on twice, I shut the engine off, removed the funnel, replaced the radiator cap, and lowered the vehicle off the jack.
Took it out for a drive a few times since and no gurgling. When I started it to drive it in to work this morning it was completely cold and still no gurgling. It would always gurgle when the engine was cold before I did the procedure.
Basically air was trapped in my heater core and no matter how many times I bled the system it would not come out. This finally got it out.
Hopefully if this doesn’t help out the original poster who asked this question, it helps someone else.
I actually had a similar problem with my 05′ Honda Civic. I know it’s a completely different vehicle, but I want to share anyway. I must have bled the cooling system about 5 times using the method Eric had shown in his how to video for Bleeding a cooling system, and I was still getting a gurgling sound coming from right behind my dash where my heater and air cond. controls are when I’d accelerate.This would usually improve as the engine warmed up, but could still be faintly heard. I had no issues with overheating either. I thought I was going crazy!
I had looked all over for a solution to this and finally found a post someone had made on another forum explaining that this comes up a lot with my particular vehicle, but I even had a friend who owns a new Chevy HHR tell me he has a similar thing going on with that vehicle too.
Anyway, I finally got rid of the gurgling and here is how I did it:
First thing I did was turn my temperature control inside the car all the way to hot, with the fan off.
Then, when my engine was cool enough to do so, I took the radiator cap off, and used one of those Lisle spill free funnels and the proper attachment to attach the funnel to the radiator filler neck.
I then started the engine and just let it idle until it reached normal operating temperature, after which I filled the funnel with some coolant. You don’t need to fill the entire funnel obviously, but put a decent amount in there. You’re not looking to really add this coolant to the system permanently, just for this procedure. The spill free funnel is great because you can just take what you didn’t use and put it back in the bottle.
At that point I jacked up the car on the passenger side using the tow hook on that side at the front. I went all the way to the point that the wheel was off the ground on that side.
Finally, I started increasing the engine speed and then began squeezing all the heater hoses, especially the ones I had toward the back of the engine bay. Not in a constant way, but sort of in a massaging way. Just squeeze for a second and let go, then move up the hose until you almost reach the end, or as far as clearance allows. You should see air bubbles in the coolant in the funnel when you squeeze. These hoses get really hot so it’s best to use some kind of protective gloves when doing this.
I would increase the engine speed periodically throughout doing this, and also made sure the cooling fans came on two times.
After going over all the hoses about 5 or 6 times, and having the fans come on twice, I shut the engine off, removed the funnel, replaced the radiator cap, and lowered the vehicle off the jack.
Took it out for a drive a few times since and no gurgling. When I started it to drive it in to work this morning it was completely cold and still no gurgling. It would always gurgle when the engine was cold before I did the procedure.
Basically air was trapped in my heater core and no matter how many times I bled the system it would not come out. This finally got it out.
Hopefully if this doesn’t help out the original poster who asked this question, it helps someone else.