crashxxx
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- Location
- Woodstock Ontario
98 4L (bought a couple of weeks ago) .. intitial problem and my diagnosis..
no heat - bad (open) tstat, temp gauge all over the place, electric fan coming on and off every 10 seconds - bad coolant temp sensor?
check engine light came on.. got a P0301 code (misfire in cyl 1) twice in the last week. runs a bit rough at idle.
3 days ago i changed the t-stat and coolant temp sensor, topped up the antifreeze, burped the rad. check engine light out..
yesterday days ago started smoking a bit on startup (for the first minute) then it doesn't smoke anymore. it's coolant smoke, not oil or blowby.
electric fan still coming on/off every 10 - 20 seconds.. can i just disconnect it?lol .. temp gauge doesn't go any higher than just below half way
i have cap, rotor, wires, plugs to go on today.. but then I got to thinking.. maybe none of these things contributed the the rough idle or the misfire in cyl 1
any advice would be appreciated before I dump too much more into this heading down the wrong path..
thanks
rob
no heat - bad (open) tstat, temp gauge all over the place, electric fan coming on and off every 10 seconds - bad coolant temp sensor?
check engine light came on.. got a P0301 code (misfire in cyl 1) twice in the last week. runs a bit rough at idle.
3 days ago i changed the t-stat and coolant temp sensor, topped up the antifreeze, burped the rad. check engine light out..
yesterday days ago started smoking a bit on startup (for the first minute) then it doesn't smoke anymore. it's coolant smoke, not oil or blowby.
electric fan still coming on/off every 10 - 20 seconds.. can i just disconnect it?lol .. temp gauge doesn't go any higher than just below half way
i have cap, rotor, wires, plugs to go on today.. but then I got to thinking.. maybe none of these things contributed the the rough idle or the misfire in cyl 1
any advice would be appreciated before I dump too much more into this heading down the wrong path..
thanks
rob
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