Recent content by jac962

Thanks for all the help. I ended up buying the truck. He said he flushed the system and refilled with orange and didn't know the difference. I'l be doing a complete flush of all the components and the block tomorrow followed by a few refils and flushes with distilled water until I feel like...

I'm looking for a Ford Ranger and I found a 2000 with low miles and very little rust (near impossible to find for this age in New England). Everything looked great on the engine, it has a minor oil leak somewhere (looks like the valve cover?) When I opened the radiator cap I noticed some gunk on...

I'm fairly new at doing fluid swaps on my own, my dad always used to help me and he would take care of recycling all the old fluids. Never really paid attention to how he did it but come to find out... he separated them so they didn't mix so that they can be recycled, who would have thought...

Thanks for all the help guys. I'm going to get going on in tomorrow. Hit the block drain plugs with some PB blaster tonight and hopefully by morning I won't have to torch them to get them loose..

Originally Posted by Chris142 That is not a dexcool disaster. Once rust starts it wont ever stop. Just like a rusty car in detroit. You can only slow it down. That mess is caused by running straight water or letting antifreeze go too long. The bottom of the water jackets are full of rust...

Thanks for all the help. As I suspected I'm getting mixed answers here. Sounds like most people are saying flush with water, backflush with water, lots and lots of water. I'll try that first and do the last flush with distilled and fill with 50/50. If it still seems to be gunked up I'll try the...

95 Chevy G20 Van, 98k miles. SBC 350 5.7L. Recently bought from a third party seller. There's a rusty residue all along the coolant system. My first thought is that someone mixed dex-cool with regular green. Top of the radiator, inside of the heater core valve and thermostat house all look "rust...

Originally Posted by eljefino Pictures are representative? When my wife's HHR needed a replacement control arm it seemed like most brands used steel ones vs the aluminum OE one. "Service part". This is the crux of the issue, in my case the pictures are not representative. I purchased a $150...

That's so incredibly infuriating. What is the point in even putting pictures then? I don't understand how it makes any sense. If I knew this I would have just paid the $75 for the cheaper control arms, I didn't know spending $150 just "increased my odds" of getting the one that I actually want...

Hey all, I've run into something really strange and I was wondering if anyone else has run into this. I ordered 2 AC Delco professional upper control arms for my '95 Chevy G20 conversion van on Rock Auto. The passenger side came correct, but the driver side was clearly a different control arm...