Recent content by Hogges

Thanks for sharing this radiator core flush method. I may give it a shot next time my daughter comes home and temperatures are above freezing. I hadn’t really been able to remove the thermostat and really flush all parts of the coolant system in this last attempt, due to approaching single digit...

Unfortunately, I need to report that the heat worked for about a week and 350 miles but now is acting up again. My daughter reported today from CT that the left side blows cold again! She says it's still better than it was, but I just ordered a heater core for the next time she comes home...

No idea. I did not try to catch the fluid from the heater core. I had to work fast as it was getting dark and it was going to drop into the single digits overnight again. The coolant I drained from the main radiator into a bucket had a tiny bit of sand-like sediment at the bottom but otherwise...

I love Summit Racing, good quality products. Here’s the one I saw on Amazon that looks similar to one I saw featured in a Wrangler YouTube video: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHPGS7P1?tag=wranglerorg-20

There are tools dedicated to coolant flushing. Some look like pressure washer guns, where you hook up the water hose to one terminal and the air compressor to another. Since none of these was available for purchase locally and I needed to take advantage of the one day above freezing, I simply...

It’s a good thing, too, as it’s 12F here today. If the outside air gets heated like that when passing through the heater core I figure it works pretty good.

I was about to hack into the dash to install a new heater core, as per the many YouTube videos illustrating how to do it. But I tried a back flush of the heater core first, combined with all new coolant. I used a combination of water from the garden hose and my air compressor, alternating...

I know this thread is a few months old, but I am trying to figure out the no heat issue on my daughter’s JK. If the hose burst, wouldn’t it spill coolant all over the place? My daughter did report smells in the car but I don’t see any puddle underneath or significant loss of coolant in the...

It’s a resistor. It doesn’t matter. There is no polarity with a resistor.

Thank you. My scanner is just an Autel tool for reading sensors and programming them into the OBD. It did tell me that the wheel locations were mixed up and that the OBD didn’t know about the spare tire sensor so I fixed that and cleared the two codes for low pressure. The tool doesn’t allow...

My daughter’s 2011 Sport is randomly reporting tire pressure sensor errors. All five sensors report good batteries and pressure within 1psi of where it should be, which is 35. Most often the error comes up during longer drives, so I thought it could be related to the tires warming up, but this...