Durania

Flushed her today. I found the garden hose fitting at the Lowe's last night, and what a tool! Fits perfectly inside the heater hoses and holds itself so you can run and turn water off. I started with flushing the hoses, then stuck it in the radiator and alternated between putting my finger off the tubes that come off the intake manifold that the heater hoses clamp to. Seen a good couple wads of trash come shooting out of the tubes. Then replaced another OEM thermostat with another OEM. Filled it back up with water drove it up the road and back. Had great heat the entire time and was even running a little cooler. Drove it back home and repeated processes. Drained radiator and put new anti-freeze back in. I attempted the "fill on an incline" process to try and eliminate air in my system. We will have to wait and see how that turns out. Drove the twenty minutes back to my apartment and had heat the entire time at an average speed of 60 mph. I am hoping I fixed this issue once and for all. Thanks to everyone that contributed to helping me keep my Brat on the road.

I know that you already have a WRX but my salesman buddy told me that they are offering a $250/month lease on the new WRX sedan. 10,000 miles per year. Didn't sound too bad of a deal.

Just got back from looking at one. They do not have a temp gauge but an idiot light. Lots of room throughout the entire car. Talk from the salesmen is a H-6 as under the hood looks to have a ton of room for one. The blue gauges are a nice touch as well.

Don't feel bad about being able to remove the key. My Brat is like that and its great on cold mornings, cause I can go out and start it and go back in my apartment to wait.

No temperature gauge?

+1 This is how I tested mine when I pulled the check engine codes. Sounds exactly like your describing.

Just went to town and back, this is exactly what it is doing. When flushing the core this weekend, do I need to use some kind of chemical solution or will just a pressure nozzle on a garden hose be sufficient?

Did you check and see if there are coolant droplets on the dipstick when checking oil?

The only leak that I get is from the overflow line off the side of the radiator. I checked for oil coolant and am not burning coolant either as motor still runs strong. Frank that sounds like a good idea as sometimes I have heat coming out of vents but when put in the "heat" position it blows cool air. Hopefully this weekend, cooling system will be douched and things will show some different results. What does this valve look like?

Even I know that. I have seen your hockey message next to your avatar for six months.

Test will be re-administered in a day or so and will compare new readings from the ones today.

1. Welcome to USMB. 2. Greetings from 70 miles to your west.

I took some temperature readings with a laser tool today. All units are in the Fahrenheit scale. Taking after 15 minutes of idling with radiator cap off. Outside Temp. 55° Center of radiator-92° Inside of radiator-99° Bottom of radiator-140° Lower Radiator house-136° Water pump-170° Upper radiator hose-135° Thermostat housing where it meets intake manifold-170° 1 & 3 Cylinder head-220° 2 & 4 Cylinder head-193° Heater hose to heater core-169° Heater hose return-116° Air temp coming out of vents-79°

I have been dealing with heating issues all week. Got to thinking about how the car will have a little heat and then a minute or so later will blow cool air, worse when in the "heat" position. Got to thinking that maybe the OEM thermostat is stuck half open and not letting enough coolant circulate back through the system. I ordered another one today and should be here Friday. Thinking will give heater core a good flushing next time I get a chance, with a good nozzle. Buddy has a laser temperature reader and will check things tomorrow when up to "normal" operating temperatures. Opinions?

Here we go again. I personally love the 5 doors, drove the WRX and liked it too. I personally think the sedans look cheap, but still would own one.

Are you taking into account the filters capacity?

Swing by and pick you one up from the parts store. Have fun though, every EA81's headlights I have had to replace have rusty brackets and take forever to get them out.

It is has the optional Fred Flinstone ABS braking system installed. I would still like to know where in the world the jump seats and the tail gate is to the bloody thing, probably 3 towns over in somebody's barn.

It had been sitting under a bunch of trees loaded down with logs since 1993. Only had 65K on it.

Downloaded Rally Mexico the other night, I should be watching it Friday night.

I too am still exhausted and you drove all day. Too bad it was so muddy, I think things would have been better. I still plan on blowing the thing up as soon as we get your motor out.

Connie, he wore the next best thing to that shirt. The "My anger management class pisses me off" one. I have a pic but I don't think it is USMB approved.