Oatmeal
NAXJA Forum User
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- Cedar City, UT
Had a coolant leak at the heater control valve and figured it had to be the heater hose.....it was dark and the valve was less than two years old.
Bought a hose at the local O'Reilly's on the way home from grocery shopping (after finding a big green puddle in the parking lot).
Got home and started to remove the hose (after it cooled down) and had half of the valve come off with it....WTF!
Does anybody make a decent valve? I replaced that one less than two years ago when I rebuilt the motor because (that one was broken too) of the nice big hole that my old lady put in one of the pistons for me....arrrgghhh, we wont go there again.
That one came from NAPA so I figured it was a decent quality one (it was Chinese, though)
Got online to look for valves and they all seem to be the same plastic ones with different brand names (and prices) attached to them.
Anybody have a certain brand they recommend that they have had good luck with?
Anyway, I'm glad it happened close to home instead of somewhere out in the middle of nowhere.......I was able to bypass it until I can get a replacement.
Rant off.
Thanks for any info you guys can toss my way!
Oh, yeah.....hi guys, haven't been on here in a while.
Hans
Bought a hose at the local O'Reilly's on the way home from grocery shopping (after finding a big green puddle in the parking lot).
Got home and started to remove the hose (after it cooled down) and had half of the valve come off with it....WTF!
Does anybody make a decent valve? I replaced that one less than two years ago when I rebuilt the motor because (that one was broken too) of the nice big hole that my old lady put in one of the pistons for me....arrrgghhh, we wont go there again.
That one came from NAPA so I figured it was a decent quality one (it was Chinese, though)
Got online to look for valves and they all seem to be the same plastic ones with different brand names (and prices) attached to them.
Anybody have a certain brand they recommend that they have had good luck with?
Anyway, I'm glad it happened close to home instead of somewhere out in the middle of nowhere.......I was able to bypass it until I can get a replacement.
Rant off.
Thanks for any info you guys can toss my way!
Oh, yeah.....hi guys, haven't been on here in a while.
Hans