The never-ending overheating story... 1998 Disco {Please Help!}

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07-18-2013, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Savannah Buzz

Radiator and heater core have crud in them. With truck warm, engine off, feel radiator fins top to bottom or use IR thermometer. More than 10F cooler on bottom indicates clogged rad, reduced flow (same air flow across surface, less hot water inside the rows of tubes at that point). You can reverse flush the heater core, they are not easy to change. Radiator can be rodded out, they unsolder a tank, runs about $75 near me. Once rad is crudded up, home brew and commercial flush products usually can't do much. They are preventative practices.

Don't drive with gauge above 9:00, and get a scanner to tell you real temps.

To add insult to injury, while waiting on a junkyard radiator, I brought my rover in for the required emissions inspection and it failed with the following codes: P1193, P0150, P0130, P0138, P1178 and P1448... Despite the fact that my check engine light is not on.

From what I can tell, these are mostly related to the O2 sensors... I realize this should probably be it's own thread... But at this point I am running out of steam and thinking I should call it quits with this thing. What do you guys think? Should I just try to sell it as is? Would I even be able to get anything for it? I already have about $2k into this thing. Should I keep going with repairs or cut my losses?

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