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Confessions of an Engine Killer - (Long) 900 1993

posted by  Token Ring Man on  Thu May 6 21:16 CST 2004
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I'm sure John will disagree with me on this one, but...

My wife did the same thing with my departed 740T. The heater hose, under the intake manifold, went and she just kept on driving it home, about 5 miles, during a eally cold Colorado winter night. She came in and told me the car was smoking, I could smell the anti-freeze, so she parked it in the garage. In the morning, I bought new hoses, we wee down to one car due to a drunk hitting our Explorer, put them on and added coolant. The car went on to do 291K miles without the head ever coming off. That little mishap happened around 125K miles. SO, all is not lost, check your compression, look for oil in the coolant, and vice versa.

The B230's are really stout engines.

Go for an all metal Nissans radiator from IPD or other places. I swapped my Nissens rad with an OE rad before I donated the 740T.

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Warren Bain - '99 V70GLT G-Valve > 80K mi, 89 300SE, '96 965 >120Kmi, near Manassas Va.. Check the 700/900 FAQ via the 'features' pull down menu. This post written with 100% recycled electrons.






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