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Originally Posted by Purplefade
Dude, at least you caught it before catastrophe happened that is awesome [emoji106]
I watched a technician drain the oil and pull the filter from a new formula 1 firebird back in the day, take a phone call, walk away from the car and then proceed to lock up the engine when he came back, lowered the rack, pulled it out into the parking lot and give the owner the keys back...
Owner walked out, started the car, looked at it funny for a minute and then drove away. He made it less than a mile before it seized up. Cost the company north of $10K to put a new engine in the car.
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I know myself fairly well so I make sure to build in a fail safe (or two) depending on the level of potential damage at hand. Many of my projects involve heading back to the store, or waiting on parts etc and sometimes I miss something.
The frozen puck in the drain pan was right at 3 liters so I'm hoping that would give everything enough room to expand and not crack anything.
Hopefully it will thaw out in the next couple days so I can get the coolant in there.
Now that I'm thinking about it, what would happen if I start the engine and something like a hose or the heater core is frozen to the point where fluid won't circulate?
Would the water pump be able to create enough pressure somehow that it would burst a hose or do some other damage?