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Coolant Bypass Valve replaced: Great Success! Posted by jgARC03SW [Email] (#1216) [Profile/Gallery] (more from jgARC03SW) on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:31:06 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
*Borat double thumbs up.
Not too bad a job, taking apart everything carefully took me 30 minutes, getting the old valve off took 15 minutes and getting everything back on again took another 45. hardest for me was getting the valve onto its little metal tab on the bracket after I put the hoses onto the new one.
In the picture-tutorial at twinsaabs.com they got the piece that you're supposed to hold with a bungee cord to stick up vertically, mine had a big wire bundle covered in velcro tape on the bottom of it so I couldn't move it too much. Is this different from the I4 pictured from my v6?
Bungee cord was a helpful trick though. Couldn't do the job without good locking vice grip pliers that my friend lent me.
Took some breaks since leaning way over the sides of the car made my knees a little sore.
Didn't lose too much more coolant, though my drip pan was not in the right place, so there's a small pile of kitty litter in my driveway now. Just finaigling the old valve off made it leak some more, I think that's where the coolant on the driveway came from, not from disconnecting the hoses since I was ready with shop towels just in case it spurted out (it didn't).
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