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Mendel, You can be right about when heat pump tech was introduced in Prius. I only know that AC system in my generation Prius is fully electric,...
100% agree with how it would be a royal pain reaching from underneath. I wondered how difficult it would be after I lifted the car and removed the...
This is a relatively small cartridge heater and at its 400W capacity it would only increase the engine block temperature by 25C or so to have a...
I can drill and tap the hole in the can I have now. My OCC bottom is about 5-6mm think so it should be easy to modify. I need to find a suitable...
My car is also living in a winter salty and rusty belt of South Ontario. I cleaned the heater placement hole with a short pipe brush before...
I like the idea of low location as it should work better with shorter hoses and better draining into OCC. I feel that I will want to check and...
Thanks for the useful information. I got some questions about your modifications: 1. How fine (microns) is the stainless steel mesh and where did...
Thanks guys for sharing your experience and ideas. I will need to monitor how good my can setup works in a few months. Today 's temperature was...
After taking front left wheel off, the dropped 12mm socket was located hiding in a small nook under the steering assembly support. All parts...
OCC is now installed. Used 7' long 3/8 fuel line and two barb splicers from PA near me. I have read the OCC big thread (in part) and being...
Compressed air blown everywhere I could reach did not help to reveal the dropped socket. Decided to take the driver side front wheel tomorrow to...
Today I have installed the heater with Permatex Silicone Dielectric grease that I already had on hand. I installed it from the above. Will see if...
Correct, I see oil level stays approximately the same between the oil changes. That is probably why the whole EGR system was not very much...
When I was cleaning EGR recently, my Prius air intake seem to have had one horizontal passage from EGR pipe which then branched into each cylinder...
Thanks Mendel, I'll install OCC then. I wonder about EGR revamp you have mentioned above... My Prius has 266k km, I bought it with ~150k and I...
I've read in OCC thread here that 2012 Prius implemented a newer design air intake manifold. When I was cleaning EGR and intake recently I could...
Good to know, thanks! As a final touch I wiped all plastic and metals with silicone spray in hope for more slippery surface so EGR carbon deposits...
There maybe something else going on with the engine that caused HG failure. I have read that one of main causes of HG failure is engine...
This is just my opinion based on what I learned about this issue, I do not have personal experience changing Prius engine head gasket, but did...
Yes, I was looking at this same grease too, since it is a heat sink type and some customer reviews mentioned that they used it for their engine...
