Yesterday my lower radiator hose sprung a leak on the freeway, and I pulled over and towed it, today I replaced the lower radiator hose and all the other coolant hoses I could see. Now the fan isnt turning on, and the engine is overheating. When I blast the heater I get no hot air, could I have hooked something back up wrong ? I have a haynes manual but thats all and it doesnt really say what goes where, I just put it back where I thought I remembered taking them off.
Help please !!

 

Hmm...all the heater core hoses hooked up correct?

 

I think so, but again the haynes diagram is ghetto as hell.
here are pictures of how it is setup, the only thing I can think is there is a switch where the lower hose that runs into the bottom firewall connector and I unhooked a little wire that was attached and then hooked it back, could I have messed something up ?

 

Sounds like you need to bleed the air outta the system, but could be something else.

 

What is the best way to do this ?
and any reason why the fan wouldnt be kicking in
?

 

Ok Im an idiot, I burped and filled the radiator and its running cool now, but for some reason it sounds like a lawn mower. its put-put-put instead of a smooth idle, and its dying at idle. Any ideas what I did to mess that up ?

 

check your vac lines...you might have pulled one off. Also how hot did it get?

 

bleed the system and check vaccum hoses, if it overheats really fast its air in the system right before the thermostat, just open the bleed valve and fill till its starts to come out of the vavle, then run the car with the heat on full blast. then fill as the bubbles come up.

 

It got pretty damn hot when it overheated, it hit the H on the temp guage. After a long drive on the freeway it seems back to normal, I will find out when I go to start it after work. I think I need to top off the fluid and Ill be good

 

Ok I think I have the overheating fixed, but wheneverI start the car it runs like crap, studdering and idling really choppy, then I give it some gas and its all better, once I noticed white smoke puff out when I ave it a bunch of gas while it was studdering, but then it went away. Could I be all of the sudden burning anti freeze ?


Modified by Gir at 5:58 AM 10/14/2004

 

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gay!!! same shizzle happened to me 2 weeks ago. I had to replace my Lower radiator hose too. Then my fan wouldnt start. But i think kuz my ac wasnt hooked up.Now everything is all good. = ] u should check ur hoses and make shure ur fan is working. those could maybe be the problems too

 

if your car is running really crappy it could be because you warped the head when the car overheated, do a compression check and post up your results