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Ok I finally got the car reg'd and can actually go hit the car wash clean engine bay and roll this thing around !!!

Yeah that was fun to watch, good job with this one. But the color tho :lol::domollama:

GO WITH SOME REAL ROTAS!!!!!!

Smogged the car today, CA standards gave me a :thumbs up. Stoked! Now I ca. Get the reg. Up to date and get this thing to the car wash :D

Quick question, about how long does it take for the ecu to be ready to smog for these cars? The car was dead with no battery for a long time and after all the repairs I need to smog it now. I'm very familiar with sniffing OBD2 cars but not these obd1, should it be ready to smog or will I have to...

Thanks! Looks like they didn't repair the exhaust they just put in completely new piping? Oh well whatever. I'm scouting CL and junk yard to see if I can come up on an exhaust for cheap. I think this weekend I'm going to see if I can find any cheap goodies for the car. I'm thinking about selling...

I got the exhaust piping welded down at a local shop, they were really cool.... professional and nice and cheap work like $80 for the weld ... woulda been less but there were about 10 other little holes in the exhaust that they patched up. Also re bleed my coolant system and got it to function...

Nah it's 5 speed. And it stopped smoking I just keep letting it run for like 20 minutes each day and it stopped ... must have been some crap just burning off? I'm gonna check it again tomorrow , test drive and idle test again

Is there supposed to be a cap on this ? Bottom of radiator there's a metal outlet ?

I left it on long enough monitoring the temp and the fans came on. It just was smokin a lil bit but the fans have cycle like 4 times now so it's all good just finding whatever small leak - I didn't have the kit for the pressure test but it seems like the radiator itself is where the leak is...

Ok. Yeah I was trying to be cautious. I got a friend coming over to help me out today so we should be able to figure it out. I was looking at the service manual and it says that thermostat opens fully at 194* and thermoswitch activates cooling fan at 196-203* so I was probably real close to the...

It was like 75 degrees - yeah temp never went to/past half way it was like at 40%. It would make since having a leak I guess. Ok let me see if I can find a leak in the system and will repeat bleed.

Nah it's in California. The engine was warmed up for a good 10 -12 minutes easy I'm prettty sure the fan should have come on at least one time. I mean I thought the radiator was gonna explode... lol smoke coming off it a lot. I thought ok maybe it just burning fluid. But the car has been smoking...

Also are you saying just put the temp slider ok so I did it again jacked it up higher squeezed harder left it on longer and I finally got the coolant to pass through to the hose past the thermostat so I'm assuming it opened up and I got the air out. However the fan still wouldn't come on. And I...

Ok well my temp gauge does not show over heat but I start to see smoke rising somewhere out of engine bay between radiator and engine it could just be some fluid but still I don't want the damn engine to overheat because the thermostat is not passing fluid?

Yeah it got hot and everything , but my fans won't turn on, I'm still having no fan issue replaced fan switch still nothing and when I jump connector it works what do I do to get fans to come on ?

Jacked the front end up , put a funnel in the radiator filled it with coolant , squeezed the lower radiator tube and the then the upper radiator tube, topped off the reservoir to max line , turned the car on put heater on continued to squeeze lower radiator tube until no bubbles would come on...

Ok I did that. My thermostat is not opening up, not getting circulation to bottom radiator hose. Rad fan won't come on ... it works when I loop the connector , have a new thermostat new fan switch and new temp gauge... what am I missing?

Ok so I replaced the thermostat with a fail safe , I replaced the fan switch after testing the connector and turning the fan on manually , I replaced the temp sensor ( and I have a reading gauge now) my car is not saying it's over heating but everything seems to get kind of hot and some smoke...

I installed a new temp sensor this morning and that fixed that problem. I don't see my radiator fan turning on though. I jumped the connector at the fan switch and it started running. I installed a new fan switch. Also , more pressing issue is the exhaust leak I found