Heater Core Replacement

From : el jr64

Q: stormin mormon wrote i presume you or your garage has tested the compression. it would be unfortuate to pull the engine apart and replace the wrong component. yes it was tested at the garage and the problem that the dealer is telling is that i used syntetic oil and i had a crack head that leak prestone in the oil and they tell me that because it was syntetic oil the mix of oil and prestone did a kind of caramel like goo that is stuck inside or in the back of the compression ring and those ring are stuck compress in and ther is no way to unstuck them with any additive so i have to take them out to change them pat if you had anti-freeze in your oil youd better take a good look at the bearings before you do much else. roy .

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From : joseph myers

hi my name is amy marie german i have a problem with my contour. you see the other day my check engine light came on and either the engine or transmition started to jump so i took it to auto zone and they check my car for the problem for free and told me it was a miss firing piston big uh oh know what i mean well i changed the spark plug wires and the light still would not go off so i tried changing the spark plugs and with my luck two came out but one broke into millions of peices and all the procilan is still in there and the other on broke off to the pioint that there is nothing to grip on to i have tried dilling but my drill is not strong enough and plus i was at risk of hitting the engine bigtime no no know what i mean so i tried tapping on it for hours on end and nothing not one bit of luck and it is too far down to reach it with anything else and i can not take it to a shop because they want 3000 dollars for it wow toomuch money that i do not have so basicly does anybody have any idea of how i can get my spark plug out without drilling please email me at tigerladytigger@yahoo.com thanks .

From : tbone

on feb 1 1258 pm martin funkychateaus...@yahoo.com wrote on jan 29 807 am dmso dsaint...@yahoo.com wrote i have a 1996 ram 1500 4x2 5.2 w/auto and 295k miles on it. recently last 2 or 3 months when my gas level get to between a little over 1/4 full empty.the check engine light starts to blink and the engine starts to backfire/miss-fire like crazy! it seems like i am running out of gas i know this is not the case. because when i fill it after this happened the amount that goes in is correct. the first time it happened the low gas light was on which i believe is about 6 gal. left. since then it has happened 4 or 5 times all when i have over 1/4 tank left. when i read the error codes p0300 - p03005 all that tells me is that the engine has been miss-firing duh!. i had the fuel pump replaced at 250k miles and other than the above problem the truck runs great. the only thing i can think of is something is blocking the intake on the fuel pump since i have no idea what the fuel pump even looks like since i had a garage mechanic replace it. other than that i do all my own repair/maintenance. does anyone have any other ideas since i really dont want to drop the tank and pull the fuel pump. my one idea was to cut a hole in the bed right over the fuel pump and pull it that way but i am not sure that is possible. thanks david david in case you get into the situation where you are about to drop the gas tank to access the fuel pump i did this about 6 or 7 years ago on a friends 96 1500 sb and there is an easier way. on this model the fuel pump cartridge was mounted very much forward in the tank. i found that all i had to do was disconnect the fuel filler hose unbolt the rear bumper take the four i think bolts out that hold the bed to the frame and maybe disconnect/unclip a few wires and tubes. then i just slid the bed back about a foot on the frame and the fuel pump could be reached from above right behind the cab. dont remember for sure but i believe it wasnt even necessary to completely remove the bumper just rotate it down enough to let the bed slide back. martin- hide quoted text - - show quoted text - oops - got dyslexic - no need to unhook the fuel filler tube - tank stays put. ive done it both ways sliding the bed on a pickup and dropping the tank on a van. martin .