I was lokking thorugh the Subaru manual to find out where the thermostat was. I'm used to it being on TOP of the engine.
While it ididn't show the location, it did say, "Remove negative battery terminal, and remove thermostat housing..."
Huh? Remove the - terminal berfore removing the thermostat housing?! WTF?!?!
Last night I went to pick up my papers for my "paper route" and saw a big-ass GMC pickup I hadn't seen before. Then I saw one of my firend's fathers, who started doing the papers about 10 days after I did. He usually drive an '01 Pathfinder.
"Where's the Pathfinder?" "I wrecked it." "WHAT?!?!?!?!"
Well, he didn't really wreck it. He had a bad bulb in the overhead light. He removed the lens, and the bulb was in pieces, but still working intermittantly. He removed the bulb and replaced the lens, and then tried to start the truck. No Go. The starter spins, but the engine doesn't catch.
Looks like he fried the ECU!!!! All the other lights work, the dome light works, but the fuel pumpo doesn't energize. He tried the reset procedure and nothing.
I had heard of this before; I can't remember what the car was, but someone shorted out the ECU replacing the dome light...