dannobre

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You forgot the smiley face Sarcasm is lost without it....and as it seems...often with

mikeywalsall

no chance of glueing mine back on.. its crumbled..not even hard plastic anymore was like brittle play dough. ... so probably would of failed at some point anyway..
I'll just have to order a new one and wait for some good weather to replace it. until then poor Thing will have to stay put. ..

TeamRX8

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I was serious, no sarcasm. Didn't expect the glue to hold but he claimed that it did.

I'd recommend replacing the radiator, but easier said than done depending on your financial situation.

nycgps

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I actually SEEN dealer in Macau glue the radiator back... the owner doesn't even know (he had the coolant tank replaced once) it broke, I was checking his P/S harness and saw the glue

he was about to go back to dealer and bitch (they never told him they broke the radiator), but I will just swap the rad for him soon.

mikeywalsall

as i said i can pick a new one from ebay for £60.

a small price to pay to get her going again.... and see if ive fixed the coolant light too... as was my first issue..

Brettus

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Hmmmm ........ one minute you think a piece of plastic lost down the sump is a worry................ next minute ..............

New Yorker

Bought my replacement tank online and took it to the dealer. Mechanic there is an RX-8 enthusiast, knew all about this risk and took special precautions to make sure this didn't happen. (Sorry, but I don't remember what those precautions were.)

QuiQuik2003

where is the mechanic located?

TeamRX8

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That clearly wasn't the case:


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DoubleBlack8

unplugging the switch does kill the light on the dash but is it possible to spray it with wd40 if the float is still on the shaft and cant be removed? wouldn't the float block the spray from reaching the bottom of the shaft where the "crap" builds up? my switch has been unplugged for a year now

Paulustrios

I have a morbid fear of broken nipples so...

I haven't removed my coolant bottle yet. My RX8 is 10 years old and I have fractured a couple of plastic connectors changing my ignition coils. So I was wondering if I could just cut the hose and insert a connector and minimize the stress that way. If so what connector could I use. Depending on the size would a pex connector work? Their melting temperature is about 1700F so we are safe there, and as radiators used to be made out of brass I guess they can deal with coolants. No metal to metal connection so no ionic problems.

Any opinion?

Nisaja

You can remove that hose from the coolant bottle side. That way, the nipple won't break. Even if it does breaks, there is a proper solution that doesn't require buying a new rad. I'll be starting a new thread about it tonight. It's fairly long and I don't have time right now. I'll keep you posted. Good luck!

Jvswan

Quick question on an old thread... I just found a coolant tank at a local parts yard. I don't know what version it is. Can anyone tell me how to visually identify which version of the tank I have? Looking all over I can't find any of the part numbers that Mazurfer posted a few pages back. Only number I can find is "PP-GF5". That is marked a couple of places on the tank. Are there any visual indicators of old/new tank versions? When I look at the thing, what tells me that I have N3H1-15-351G/M or something else?

Thanks!

ASH8

Sorry virtually impossible to tell on this one..

Except, IF you can supply me the FULL VIN number of the car it came out of I can cross check it for original part number, but it wont tell me IF the tank was replaced before.

Jvswan

Well, dang it. I'm not sure about the donor car. The tank and sensor assemply was only $10 so I figured I'd give it a shot since my stock bottle/sensor (2004 GT) has given up even trying to work. LOL I really hate seeing that dumb idiot light illuminated on my gauge cluster!

claybaby

can someone tell me the best way to get the coolant bottle out? Also show where to unplug sensor thanks

claybaby

why can't we just replace the plastic top on the radiator and not then entire radiator? You know where the nipple tends to break off why can;t the plastic across the top of radiator just be replaced?

Nisaja

You can replace the top radiator tank, but it's even cheaper to fix the nipple itself. Yes, it can be done

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discussion-3/%2420-solution-radiator-nipple-breaking-261935/

We've done this for a couple of cars and they've all been holding up pretty well. No leaks.

RotoScooter

I have seen the Radiator light come on above 5K for years, but now it is waaay worse... except I went to it, and just pulled the connector from the clip at the bottle. I have NOT even unplugged the connector yet. This morning I drove in to work between 5K-8K... the light never went on!
I'm betting on poor contacts on that connector. Maybe some corrosion in that area from battery fumes, coolant? This will be interesting to troubleshoot. One other thing though, I also topped off the bottle with fresh mix the other day, so maybe it washed the sensor clean a bit???

jonspurs

About the sensor crud...has anyone tried a bottle of car radiator flush/cleaner to take out the crap?

Shinka in MD

I guess I have this issue... the symptoms are slightly different. I first noticed it a while ago... the 'Engine Coolant Level warning light' came on while I was driving on the Interstate, that was the first time I'd ever seen that illuminate, so I wasn't sure what it was, and I pulled over to the side of the road, noticed the Engine Temp gauge had moved a bit from it's normal temp, after a few minutes of idling, the Coolant Temp light went out and I drove quite a way before it came back on again... Over time, it seemed like I came on less often when the OAT was cooler and less when it was hot, and more often when the RPM was over 3,000 and less when it wasn't, but the Engine Temp gauge never varied from it's normal temp. After the first one or two times it happened I'd bought a half gallon of Mazda pre-mixed coolant but when I popped the radiator and reservoir caps, there wasn't much room left to top them off to their normal levels. Now, with the hot weather lately, the Engine Coolant Level warning level has been coming on more often, so I finally got around to checking in here to ask if anyone has experienced this and found this and a couple of other similar threads... this sounds like the sounds like the issue I have, the only difference in my case is I haven't seen anything about the effect of the RPMs being over or under 3,000 being a contributing factor. My Shinka came off the line on March 30, 2005, so if cleaning the gunk out of the reservoir doesn't resolve the issue, from what I've read it sounds like I need to replace both the reservoir and the sensor... does that sound about right? Any other words of wisdom about this matter will be appreciated.

XDragon8

Yep. Just replace the coolant bottle. Sensor is set inside the unit. Issue sorted. It has lasted you well.

Shinka in MD

Thanks for the confirmation XDragon8.

cmaderia10

Hi. My question is: I have an 04 mazda rx8. On the bottom right of the radiator, there is a plug. You twist it and take it off, and the coolant comes out. Is this what we should be using to drain coolant, or is there another plug?
I am doing another coolant flush. My coolant light came on and my engine overheated.

Thanks, chad

UnknownJinX

The plug is on the driver's side of a LHD car, so if you are facing the front bumper, it is on the right side.