How do you tell if your thermostat is bad? I went out drifting last night with some friends and my S14 was overheating like CRAZY. I just put a new water pump and 16" e-fan on yesterday...so I was thinking it might be my thermostat. Like seriously, 6 donuts and the car was ON FIRE...

reps.

LOL....

Okay, seriously...rough weekend...my water pump 'SPLODED yesterday, put some dents in my hood, cut some MAF wires, wrecked my 3-month old all-aluminum radiator...now I think my thermostat's bad.

Does my reasoning sound viable?

replace it. its only like $12.

probably air bubbles in the system.

P.Haire wrote:probably air bubbles in the system.

yup. pockets of superheated air causing that gauge to go apeshit and then add in the fact that a waterpump can't move air..

i say do both. bleed the air out and change thermostat. if that dosent work insert dynomite into car

Ooooh....dynamite...that's a good idea.

It looked like someone had slapped some C4 on my water pump yesterday. Like, I don't know WHAT the fuck happened....but 4 of the 5 bolts were still there, and chunks of the water pump were as well...

It was the most gnarly failure of a piece of equipment on a motor vehicle I'VE ever witnessed....

did you replaced the radiator as well? if so, how did you go about refilling the coolant system?

btw, i seem to recall telling you a few months ago that you would fuck it up... i was right...

Sounds like you don't need to work on your car. Repz.

struka wrote:Sounds like you don't need to work on your car. Repz.

he doesn't... he's still kind of a grasshopper (no offense, nazi)

I'm going to bleed the coolant system tonight. Will report after that.

yuuup just let all the air bleed out and might as well replace the thermostat before doing that b/c you'll have to bleed the system again anyhow when you replace it.