My Fusion was not getting up to heat, not totally cold but the faster I drove, or colder outside air temp was, the less heat I would get so I suspect a leaking thermostat. Car has over 120k miles.
The parts I got from rockauto: Motorcraft KM5044, KM5007, VC10A2, and RT1193. I mixed the antifreeze a little stronger than 50/50. I should have but did not replace the line that goes across the engine, only the radiator supply and returns. The drain is on the driver side down low. The thermostat is on the passenger side on the front of the engine, its pretty accessible actually. The upper hose on the driver side may required you to remove some tubing plus the air inlet. Try not to break old cracked fittings like I did (including my fuel line). There must be some videos how to remove some of those pesky connectors. The vacuum tool I bought from national tool warehouse "UView UVW550000". It worked really well on a small (8 gallon) 120psi harbor freight air compressor.
You cannot see it, but yes there is a jack stand for safety.
Sorry if you are bored or it doesn't help you enough. It just sort of ends when I kicked over the camera and the rest of the footage was cleanup that I cut. Be gentle, I'm neither a youtuber nor is this highly instructional. I know how annoying that can be. Sometimes I time lapse record stuff for fun with my GoPro (9 black) to share only privately. But since there was a lack of info on this thermostat change, I edited out the worst of it and most boring and uploaded...in case it may help someone else. The video is mostly shot as time lapse 0.5 second between frames (played at 30fps) and there is no audio except a couple clips (but they are also sped up).
Good luck.
27 авг 2024
