1996 R33 Series Ii

[skins]

On saturday my car broke down. It wasn't a extremely hot day but was a tad warm so I was driving with my a/c on as you do. After a while my car had no power really struggled to accelerate and after a while wouldn't accelerate at all when under load. Turned off the a/c and limped to a mates place. The temperature gauge on the dash ( standard dash cluster ) was reading normal temp. After the car had cooled down i d/c the sender and the guage went to zero then reconnected it and it was reading again. I went to pop the bonnet but it was too hot to touch and the left front guard was too hot to touch also. So waited for it to cool down. After it had cooled down it took 2 litres of water in the radiator number six cylinder wasn't firing. Pulled out the plug and it was gummed up with carbon and wasnt firing. After all that was done started it up and it ran ok. Drove to toowoomba and the temp gauge got to normal but it was really thirsty. Got back to brisbane everything was too hot to touch the radiator was full and it was running fine.

I'm thinking that my thermostat isn't opening / working.

Any quick thoughts before I

1. Shoot it

2. Trade it in on a Excel

3. Go to the mechanic's and get shafted ?

Thanks in advance,

Me

[mosquitocoils]

It might be a dumb thing to bring up, but are you maybe leaking radiator fluid anywhere that you can see?

[Revhead]

On saturday my car broke down. It wasn't a extremely hot day but was a tad warm so I was driving with my a/c on as you do. After a while my car had no power really struggled to accelerate and after a while wouldn't accelerate at all when under load. Turned off the a/c and limped to a mates place. The temperature gauge on the dash ( standard dash cluster ) was reading normal temp. After the car had cooled down i d/c the sender and the guage went to zero then reconnected it and it was reading again. I went to pop the bonnet but it was too hot to touch and the left front guard was too hot to touch also. So waited for it to cool down. After it had cooled down it took 2 litres of water in the radiator number six cylinder wasn't firing. Pulled out the plug and it was gummed up with carbon and wasnt firing. After all that was done started it up and it ran ok. Drove to toowoomba and the temp gauge got to normal but it was really thirsty. Got back to brisbane everything was too hot to touch the radiator was full and it was running fine.

I'm thinking that my thermostat isn't opening / working.

Any quick thoughts before I

1. Shoot it

2. Trade it in on a Excel

3. Go to the mechanic's and get shafted ?

Thanks in advance,

Me

4. Take it to Dan @ ERD and get looked after

[Isola]

Jason,

Check that your water pump hasn't seized.

[Col-GTSX]

trade it on an excel... fwd skids ftw...

its not really a big problem, just get it fixed...

[FineLine]

It definitely sounds like you're losing your cooling fluid somewhere.

Your guage will read normal because there is no fluid in the system for it to take a reading from so it simply reads air temp.

Get your cooling system checked.

[skins]

It definitely sounds like you're losing your cooling fluid somewhere.

Your guage will read normal because there is no fluid in the system for it to take a reading from so it simply reads air temp.

Get your cooling system checked.

Who's a good person to do that ?

[Col-GTSX]

you could use any radiator specialist... I see your at ascot, so pickering street is not to far and there are 3 different radiator mobs there...

or you can use someone like ERD or similar...

[skins]

you could use any radiator specialist... I see your at ascot, so pickering street is not to far and there are 3 different radiator mobs there...

or you can use someone like ERD or similar...

Just google it ? Who's ERD ?

[33driver]

ERD = Elite Racing Developments down at Yatla, Dan is the 'house sponsor' for SAU QLD club, can't go wrong

[mosquitocoils]

Any mechanic will be able to do it for you if you're pressed for money or time to get it to an import mechanic.

Having said that, I use tuff toys at Virginia and they're great. Know their jap cars inside and out

[Col-GTSX]

Or google Enogerra Radiator Service... Their just down the road from you...

Dan is good, just quite a distance from you...