My 1999 Taurus is over heating and I think it is from the radiator being plugged. It looks like I have to remove the front bumper to get to the radiator. Does anyone have step by step instructions for radiator removal in a 1999 DOHC V6 Tauras?
2006-08-02 02:55:15 · 4 answers · asked by gazette_2000 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Ive replaced 3 radiators in that type of car and man lemme tell ya something. Book time is 6 hrs labor dont try and do it yourself unless you have a lift to put it on. You also have to evacuate the freon out because the a/c condensor has to be removed. They are a bieotch Good Luck
2006-08-02 04:01:10 · answer #1 · answered by rookie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you can always buy a Haynes or Chilton's manual for step by step instructions, but generally speaking you do not have to remove the bumper in cars to get the radiator out. Most commonly either the frame piece above the radiator unbolts or you take off the fans on the back side and after unbolting the radiator, and removing the hoses you can take it out the back. Remember that it may also be attached to an oil cooler and/or an air conditioning condensor.
As to the radiator being clogged, I might suggest you try a chemical flush on it before removing it. Then too there are several other causes for a car to overheat besides the radiator being clogged, though it would be helpful to know more about what circumstances cause it to overheat.
For example, does it overheat sitting still or in stop and go traffic, but not on the highway? That would be more indicative of a bad electric fan, a nad thermal switch for the fan, or a loose connection to the fan.
Is the coolant properly mixed? Antifreeze, when it is not old, is very good at inhibiting corrosion and preventing freezing in the winter and boiling over in teh summer, but not really very good at transferring heat from the engine. In most areas of the lower 48 states in the U.S. a 50/50 mix of antifreeze and water is best for that--with the water being the primary agent for drawing heat from the engine.
Have you changed the coolant recently, and if so did you take care not to trap any bubbles in the high points of the cooling system in the cylinder head? Air trapped there prevents coolant from properly drawing off heat. Usually cylinder heads have a bleeder bolt or bolts that one can remove to allow you to fill any voids of air trapped high up after a coolant change.
Are you sure the thermostat is working properly? While thermostats are designed to fail in the open position, sometimes a cooling system fouled with corrosion and debris (like that which might clog a radiator) can get gummed up and fail partly closed. This of course would restrict coolant circulation to and from the engine and the car would overheat. While it is not a foolproof test of whether the thermostat is working properly, you can make reasonable assumptions by doing the following: In the morning, when the engine is cold, start it and watch the temperature guage very carefully. In five to ten minutes it will rise to normal operating temperature, and then should fall back a bit as the thermostat opens to admit the as yet unheated coolant from the radiator into the block and cylinder head, replacing that which was heated during warm up. If is does, then most likely the thermostat is working properly. Note, however, that this only works before the car has been run, as the temperature guage is not very sensitive, and if the coolant in the radiator has already been heated by the engine running, it will not be sufficiently lower in termperature to move the guage much as compared to the hotter coolant it displaces in the engine on opening.
Finally, there are other things to look at, like a bad water pump, although that usually will leak when it fails, a bad radiator cap, which will not allow the system to operate at designed pressure, or a blown head gaslet, whch should evidence itself with eitehr oil drops or brown sludge in the coolant or coolant droplets or brown sludge on the oil dipstick.
Anyway, I hope this has been of some help. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at anonymourati@msn.com
2006-08-02 03:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 18:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Autozone.com , they have free repair Manuel online
2006-08-02 03:38:46 · answer #4 · answered by hyghwayman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋