you didnt need to do all that bro lol

Thank you sir

It's my opinion that those thermostats were deliberately designed for early failure

thanks for the video. this info helped

1:45 ”Pull that hose the one that’s going at a 90° angle on top of it. Pull that out slowly. Old plastic will break. It’s brittle.” In my case it didn’t break but it’s almost worse: It came out intact on BOTH ends. I barely caught a glimpse of some rubber piece falling off the back end, deep into the engine. Hours later I found it by blindly feeling around the transmission area but it turns out that it was just a gooey rubber remnant of some grommet that is functionally useless in its degraded state… which is why it stopped holding the other end of the pipe in the first place. I spent hours trying to see or feel where it is supposed to go, but no luck. The van still starts/runs but it’s now breathing unfiltered air through that tube that no longer goes anywhere. Also, I doubt the hose was going where it was supposed to since I got the old van so who knows how long it was like that. I took the opportunity to clean my throttle body and MAF sensor with the appropriate products so I hate to see that effort go to waste. The throttle body gasket was stuck so tight that I spent way longer looking for another bolt than I should have! I hate to go through all this to replace my thermostat, thermostat housing (goose neck piece), air filter, etc just to end up taking it to a shop over this plastic freakin’ hose. It must go somewhere even harder to see/reach than the bottom bolt on that thermostat housing! Like you, my hands are all cut up. My thermostat housing even had a sharp protruding defect that shredded gloves and skin while flipping and turning that wrench on the slotted thermostat housing bolt. What a useless slot, seeing how the thermostat protrudes from the engine into the housing such that the housing can’t be slid off anyway. My thermostat was stuck open since I got the van a year ago so I actually got a “fail open” replacement (better than overheating). I ordered the replacement with a new housing so I won’t have to deal with that sharp defect next time but I was a little disappointed that the new bleeder. After refilling I needed a 7mm wrench for one bleed screw and 8mm for the other. The replacement included a new rubber O-ring that doesn’t seem to fit anywhere. I’m not talking about the flat ring gasket that’s part of the thermostat itself. It’s a slightly larger round O-ring. Maybe later versions of the 3400 engine have a groove for this ring? Mine didn’t. Rock Auto was selling them separately too so it must be a thing. I tried to replace my radiator petcock and fluid level sensor only to find that neither fit right. The petcock is completely different so I must have an aftermarket radiator. The coolant level sensor will not clip on and can pull right off. I actually had it replaced less than a year ago but the replacement didn’t work either. Now that I’ve confirmed it was bad maybe I should put it back in there and take it to the shop for warranty. All in all, this whole job has been absolute nightmare for many reasons I haven’t mentioned, but thanks for the video. I never would’ve got this far without it!

Ok I’m only going to add one then that’ll hopefully help some people the back bolt is slotted so if you pull the hose and the top bolt it’ll pop off with minimal effort

Thanks so much for your help and wisdom because I was about to go CRAZY🤣🤣🤣❤

Thank you very much. This is inspiring 🙌

Its happening for my KIA Spectra 2009 car. Mechanic filled coolant level and there is no leakage, still hearing it.

Thank you for the help it actually worked 😊

If you break the cruise control cable end, look for ATP YR-100. Though it is sold for transmission cables on much older GM vehicles, I tried it on a 2000 Pontiac Montana and it works.

Your video sucks

It’s horrible to get them bottom bolts out

Not a pain is definitely not true it’s an night mare to get that bottom thermostat housing bolt

You talked and talked, but never showed any actual work!

I got this far 3 years ago, and was able to put a wrench on the bottom bolt, and I declared victory in my head. Then the bolt head stripped. No way to get it off.

What size are the bolts??? To the thermostat like so good at showing what to take off an all that but no metric or standard sizes

Followed your steps and water sound no more thank you!

Clearly you’re not very mechanically inclined

That was great information bro thank you Enrique.

Helpful video. But that bolt on the underside of the thermostat body is a pain.

Mine was just my coffee next to me.....what I have ford PTSD

is it safe to drive before fix it ?

Thank you. Your video helps me see what I am getting into. Good job.

What about if it's coming from my gas tank, I have an 08 altima and I can hear it coming from underneath the seats

did it have a air filter? I got my thermostat going to get throttle gasket, 🤞 this works to fix my van.

Pro tip: speed up the playback to 1.25.

Geeeezzzz just to change a thermostat!

At what time was the sound played in this video, please?

I was hearing that noise in my pilot. I bled the system and it was fine for a couple of days. Now I hear it again and the heater is not very hot. Please your help.

Do I need to bleed it right away? And do I need to raise the car

I recently went in a local place to have my oil changed and they offered me to replace my air filter and refill and flush my coolant too so could it be that they did a bad job with the coolant part? I didnt hear this sound until tonight. My car had this flush about 3 weeks ago. I don't know how I didnt hear it till now, but it was so quiet like you said so that's probably why I didnt hear it till tonight. Its 1 am in the morning and I decided to go get some hamburger from Jack in the box and I usually have the music on but I turned it off this time because I wanted to relax with no sound since it was 1 am in the morning. I just wanted to go for a clean drive. That's when I heard the sound..right before I drove off. The sloshing sound. I have no idea what to do. Should I take it back to the place that flushed my car or have somebody else take a look at what is making the sloshing sound to get an objective opinion??

I have the water bubbling sound on my first cold start. It stays for maximum three seconds. If I switchoof and start agin no more sound at all. Again if we wait lets say three hour for engine to cool, we can hear the sound agin in the start. What could be reason.. Please help..

Very informative thank you so much. I thought I was going crazy.

Just reach ur hand towards the back n hold the wrench upside down, use the box end of the wrench on the bolt... U do not need to take off throttle body, just air intake from the box to the throttlebody... Just got done doin it, lol

Thank you

Mate. You are a legend! This issue in my Amarok has pissed me off no end. Question though. Is this the same cause of the 100-200 ml. of water that poor into the front passenger well from behind the dash after a night of good solid rain?

Man, I appreciate the video but way too much time talking about this sensor or that hole.

Does my amd e1 can be upgraded to much better processor? , thanks in advance

GM spends shitlodes of money designing an engine and sure as Moses wore sandles GMs engineers aint running to NAPA for their parts. A good shop wont put B grade/garbage parts in your car.

@edmanwalkin1 was irt overheating or was it running cold, or too cool?

I drive an rx8 and those things have some reliability issues. So this is a relief

Could you talk anymore SLOWWWWWWW, this is painful

You are so lucky that you laptop didn't come with the AMD e300 chip that my c855d came with. That cpu is soldered on to the board. Can't swap it and it's extremely slow.

thx sooo much I am soo glad this was helpful

i think u just saved me a lot of money

Eso es una. Montana se la Pontiac

i got some rat noises from my heater core

Hope you cleaned that tbi I didn’t watch all the video so maybe you did idk but lord it looked nasty

Thanks for the help, I was experiencing this on my 2008 Ford F150 and I followed your steps and its solved. .I feared I had a leak in the heater core but the coolant level never dropped so I was a bit confused. Thanks