|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Heating & Cooling
Is your heat not working properly on a cold day? Your car's cooling system is critical to engine operation! It circulates coolant through the engine, cooling the cylinder heads and walls and providing heat for the car's heating system. By means of a water pump, radiator (to disperse excess heat), thermostat (to regulate temperature), and fan (to keep radiator cool). Your car is designed to run between 180 and 220 degrees F. If your fuel-injected engine is too cool, it will run rich, causing additional problems. If your engine runs too hot or overheats, you may cause engine failure (blown head gasket, cracked or warped heads, cracked block). Coolant can enter the combustion chambers by means of a blown head gasket or cracked/warped cylinder head. Some of the symptoms may be white smoke from exhaust, engine skip (fouling plugs with coolant), intermix of coolant into the engine oil (characterized by milky whitish oil on dipstick). If you suspect any of these symptoms your car should be be towed, not driven, to a repair station. Further driving will cause further engine damage or possible failure! Heat is provided to your car's passenger compartment by means of a heater control valve, heater core and hoses. It is circulated and controlled by a series of ductwork and vacuum actuator doors. A blower fan blows the heat for even circulation.
|
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miami, Florida 33155 
