torque_is_good

eh

splitting hairs

the "hot coolant" (doesn't that sound kinda silly) enters the core when the lever is slid to warm

If you have a leaky heater core, slide te lever to cold and you don't need t have the A/C on or anything, no coolant will flow as long as you have that temp valve


that's what i did until i got around to replacing the heater core which i replaced 2 months prior

with respect to a noise, are you sure you don't have an exhaust leak?

xxZ28xx

iTrader: (1)

My left tail pipe has a faint sputter but when it does sputter it blows out warm air instead of hot air. The previous owners backed into something and its bent to the right a little bit. I wouldn't put it past it. How do I check without the seafoam?

torque_is_good

when i say exhaust leak, and probably when most say it, we aren't concerned about near the mufflers

we're talking about where the header is attached to the cylinder head or where the , and I shudder to type this, the stock restrictive, performance robbing exhaust manifold is attached

or, where the y pipe attaches to the collectors

leaks there could sound like a tapping to the untrained ear

xxZ28xx

iTrader: (1)

Im buying headers for it, probably just getting a whole new exhaust. But what would this leak sound like, and would it go away if I adjusted the valves? (because I adjusted the valves and the tapping went down a little bit, it got way quieter than before).