Scare of My Life/I Am a Moron/Whew It's All Good

[rico05]

So I go to change my thermostat today... no biggie (except for the Nismo one wouldn't fir and the place I bought it from is refunding me and sending me an OEM one, which is good cuz the one I got a O'Reilly is 86^C as opposed to the stock 82^C) Well I kinda lost my OEM thermo elbow gasket. SO I bust out the RTV...

On the way to my g/f's house, boosting all the way (BTW, w/ my 3" on, man-o-man the turbo is like connected to my damn foot! I <3 it!!) I keep an eye on the temp gauge and threw a gallon of 50/50 coolant in my trunk. I get about 1 mile from her place, when in a matter of seconds, the temp gauge shoots from a little over halfway to FULL Hot!!! AAAHHHHHH! So I turn into a gas station, and kill it quick style. Pop the hood and coolant is spewing all over the place from the blown RTV gasket. Damn. Call g/f on my cel...

Trip #1 to O'Reilly: Get another OEM gasket and another gallon of 50/50. Drive back to my house (13 miles) to grab some tools and go back to my car. Get the gasket in and fill the rad. Turn on the car to get the air bubbles out and low and behold: one of the coolant lines that we capped off under the TB blew off its cap (better than a rad hose going I guess)

Trip #2 to O'Reilly: Buy a $9 box of vac caps and zip ties (which I have at home grumble grumble) and go back to car. Put the cap on. Crank her. Idles fines, revvs fine, and now holds coolant! Yay! just as I am about to leave, my buddy that works up the street at a BMW/Mazda/Hyundai dealership pulls up in a car ready for delivery (Mazda3...looks better inside that I would have thought) He has the company gas card to fill up the 3 for the person that just bought it. He fills it w/ 93 and then fills my car up as well! How bad a$$ is that! So all in all...it was a fun night

[Spectre_240sx]

Sounds like a stressful time. Glad to here you got everything fixed up though.

[float_6969]

*rico* = unce for using RTV.....

(ryan is horrible with names -Sean)

[rico05]

Ryan = teh suxX0r

Now my engine smells so nice as the all of the coolant is buring off of it. Gotta love a car that goes PPSSSHHHH and smells like burning lolly pops...

[iliketocrash]

i've used rtv on some things i really shouldn't but i've never had a problem with it leaking ever. how long did you let the rtv "gasket" set?

[Neejay]

uhh..hrm, whats a RTV?

[float_6969]

Darnit, I did that on purpose guys, I really did (sunofa...)

RTV = Room Temperature Vulcanizer

It's basically like caulk for your car...

[rico05]

I only let it set up for about 5 hours. SHould have waited for the entire 24.

[iliketocrash]

yeah. i've got RTV sealing a power steering line that i had leaking. i let it sit for a little over 24 hours and it holds up like a champ.

[nab911]

Lol i thought you when you said what RTV was you were making it up.

I always make up weird names for it.

RTV = Really Tastey Vaseline