A tale of two Dusters
VERY Interesting day/night. On Thursday I get to school for class and look at my car only to find it is puking coolant out the water pump! So after class I get a couple of gallons thinking I can at least limp it to work (where I'd fix it Friday)... No such luck! So there I am.. Sitting in a cloud of steam so thick that the only way... I can tell weather the stoplight changed is that the cloud changed colors! I get it across the intersection and into a parking lot and shut it off, Time: 11:14pm. I hike an 1/8th of a mile till I find a trucker with a cell phone. Then wait, pace around, etc. till the tow truck finds me, Time: 12:45 am. Get back to the shop,Time 1:53 AM. Go to a friend house to crash Time: 2:45 am. spend a rough night on the couch and up in the morning at 6:15 for work! After work on Friday I started to fix my Duster and found out the damage was even worse than I thought. the fan had totally hacked up the radiator when the water pump went out. I fixed everything else Friday and found the radiator Saturday. Got it Sunday and hope to have it fixed by Tuesday. Now for pics!
The play in the pump:
The radiator:
The water pump:
Timing cover:
New pump on:
All the carnage!:
VERY Interesting day/night. On Thursday I get to school for class and look at my car only to find it is puking coolant out the water pump! So after class I get a couple of gallons thinking I can at least limp it to work (where I'd fix it Friday)... No such luck! So there I am.. Sitting in a cloud of steam so thick that the only way... I can tell weather the stoplight changed is that the cloud changed colors! I get it across the intersection and into a parking lot and shut it off, Time: 11:14pm. I hike an 1/8th of a mile till I find a trucker with a cell phone. Then wait, pace around, etc. till the tow truck finds me, Time: 12:45 am. Get back to the shop,Time 1:53 AM. Go to a friend house to crash Time: 2:45 am. spend a rough night on the couch and up in the morning at 6:15 for work! After work on Friday I started to fix my Duster and found out the damage was even worse than I thought. the fan had totally hacked up the radiator when the water pump went out. I fixed everything else Friday and found the radiator Saturday. Got it Sunday and hope to have it fixed by Tuesday. Now for pics!
The play in the pump:
The radiator:
The water pump:
Timing cover:
New pump on:
All the carnage!: