No start after thermostat replacement

Marisha_Lee
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:34:42 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

So moments after I commented to my passenger that my car was so old it was one of those ride it into the ground in flames scenarios, it overheated and refused to start. I think she heard me… We limped it home, changed the leaking water pump and gave it another go. Heater hose connectors blew on the next ride, overheated again, replaced those. They were so rotted out that they snapped off in the tensioner pulley so we replaced that too. Still overheated. Obviously the thermostat was bad so let’s replace that sucker and now I’m certain it’ll stop overheating because I’m pretty sure I’m out of bits to fix but the damn thing won’t start for me to find out. I’m not mechanically savvy and honestly i didn’t know half of the words in this paragraph when the whole thing started but I’m learning. There were some vacuum hoses that snapped off in the thermo replacement (seen in the picture) but I (think) i fixed those too… So i don’t know what I’m missing and apparently I’m the only one on the entire internet with this specific problem so I’m open to descriptive suggestions that preferably include pictures. When i took the thermostat out it was literally pitch black and the housing was full of what can only be described as ash and bone dry. The old girl turns and turns and clicks and clicks but just won’t start. I walked to auto zone 4 times today and their laughter as i wandered in repeatedly with random car parts saying “what is this and what does it do?” will haunt my dreams for years to come. The picture is to see if anyone notices anything that should be attached that isn’t.

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