To check your car’s hoses, walk around the hood area and squeeze every hose you encounter. If you find any that are leaking, bulgy, soft and squishy, or hard and brittle, replace them. Replacing a hose is easy and inexpensive. You’ll find instructions for how to do so in Chapter 14. It pays to replace […]
The radiator cools your engine and needs water and coolant (sometimes called antifreeze) to function. (Chapter 8 familiarizes you with the parts of the cooling system and how they work; Chapter 14 tells you how to flush your cooling system and do minor repairs on it; and Chapter 21 tells you what to do if […]