Tiburonmoo

Ok, here's the deal. My car's temp shot up to the redzone out of nowhere on friday at a redlight and so now I have the wonderful task of figuring out what happened. I'm doing several things at once for right now and one of them is replacing the T-Stat since it's only $5.99 and it's something I've wanted to do myself for a while now.

So on to my problem. I am following the steps on webtech. I drained my radiator and removed the 2 screws on my inlet/outlet thing(webtech can't make up it's mind on if it's in or out). However, that's where I'm stuck! I can't get that damn thing off! I've tried muscle and rocked the whole car making the car bounce and everything. I tried the wedging my screwdriver behind it and in the bolt holes to break the seal and nothing either way! What am I missing?


Edit:

Uhh... nevermind. owned.gif My dad came by and with 2 taps of a mallet on a screwdriver knocked it off. owned.gif He saw a way to get at it from an angle I didn't see and didn't have a problem with it at all I guess my frustration got the better of me. nana.gif nana.gif nana.gif

Mad-Machine

mallets can be a wonderful thing. No doubt it was gunk from your cooling system, the gasket, and the sealant that Hyundai uses on the gasket surfaces that had hardened into a nasty solid mess.

might want to consider flushing your cooling system while you are at it.

REDZMAN

Yeah, since you have it all off and drained, flush, backflush, and flush again.