ditto

That is an unexpected amount of black crap in the alcohol bath. Your wife was right to complain. KK never had that amount of crap on his entire car.

Woodman71

You are correct! They had more gunk on them than the underside of a 1982 928 from New Jersey.

Now, they are so nice I find myself changing the radio station constantly.

Woodman71

My kids' dentist. I agree, with the money we pay them I'd expect a better product.

ditto

You don't use the presets? Or are those filthy too?

Have you seen the Top Gear episodes where they do forensic analysis on used cars? The crap could be coke, body fluids, second hand bacitracin.

Woodman71

Yuck!

Yes, I use the presets, luckily they aren't sticky.

Mostly the right **** is for skipping to songs with my badass disc changer option.

Woodman71

So, after much reading around the whole "dirty rads" subject, decided to tackle this DIY today. Overall it went relatively smoothly, although one of the wheel well rivets disappeared into another dimension when I popped it out.

Left rad was relatively clean compared to the right one. Which I deduced to mean the PO drove in the fast lane more often than the slow lane on highways.

I don't have any reason to believe these had ever been cleaned, '99 with 65k miles.

One interesting note I didn't see mentioned in the existing DIY videos was two tubes that dead end connected into a mounted plastic plat directly in the middle of the underside of the cover. I pulled them off and no fluid came out. Not sure where they lead to.

Finally, I discovered every single screw for the bottom was broken/gone. Will be getting some new screws and giant sized washers to help strap the underside back on.

Here is the right rad before:



And after:



Looking naked - and you can see those two tubes I mentioned previously:



And my nice scraped up bumper cover acting as a garden feature. See those two black stubs in the middle? That's where those tubes were connected.



EDIT: Woke up this morning and realized I might have forgotten to re-insert the outside temp unit in the air scoop. Crap.

Woodman71

Well, it seems the gap between hood and bumper is larger than it was before I did this job. Crap.

ZuffenZeus

Yep, not a hard one to fix, but is frustrating. I experienced the same thing. First, make sure all mounting bolts are loose. Then start with the two that are around the frunk latch. While pushing the bumper towards the rear of the car, tighten the two bolts. The gaps should match the side gabs of the frunk.

Sula

Woodman: you are a DIY god.

From where?

Nathan Jackson

this thread has been entertaining. I need to clean my rads and replace the fans (car runs slightly over half when a/c on and stage one fans not working) Did you figure out what those hose lines went to? im guessing they are for headlight washers if so equipped??

Woodman71

Thanks b3freak.

Wish I could do it without having to get those pesky side marker screws behind the wheel well covers...

Woodman71

Probably a hardware store.

Some of the tabs on the bottom with screw holes are broken, so I am going to need some biggish washers to reattach.

Woodman71

I didn't actually track down their source, but I was able to reattach them.

On a side note, I forgot to pull the outside temp sensor back into the scoop, too, but was able to reach in from below and get it taken care of.

Not that it matters because I have to repeat the dang process to realign the cover with the trunk...

ZuffenZeus

Word to the wise, once you get the gaps all lined up, be sure to check shutting the frunk. Ask me how I know. hahaha

Woodman71

Ouch