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Old Aug 4, 2014 | 09:37 AM
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And here I am again to talk about my corvette.

The works that have been made from the garage, do it!
I do not work anymore wipers, interior air and dazzling. With the wiring diagrams at hand, I found that a negative has been connected to the starter POSITIVE!
The power steering belt was also linked to the water pump ... then the belt was crooked and was working badly (as I wrote in another tred).

Now I'm struggling with a perplexity:
I brought the peaks at 100 miles and after 5 seconds I realized that the hand touched the red zone temperature of 260 C° degrees! When grades are normally trip 240 C°. It 's normal? In my opinion I have to work on the radiator!
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Old Aug 4, 2014 | 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by RobyC3
And here I am again to talk about my corvette.

The works that have been made from the garage, do it!
I do not work anymore wipers, interior air and dazzling. With the wiring diagrams at hand, I found that a negative has been connected to the starter POSITIVE!
The power steering belt was also linked to the water pump ... then the belt was crooked and was working badly (as I wrote in another tred).

Now I'm struggling with a perplexity:
I brought the peaks at 100 miles and after 5 seconds I realized that the hand touched the red zone temperature of 260 C° degrees! When grades are normally trip 240 C°. It 's normal? In my opinion I have to work on the radiator!
Connecting the ground to the starter positive is a common mistake.

260 deg. C can not be correct.
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Old Aug 4, 2014 | 09:44 AM
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The temperature when the engine is hot it should be?
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Old Aug 4, 2014 | 11:00 AM
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The engine coolant gauge is in degrees Fahrenheit, not Celsius.

Normal indication would be 180-215 or so.
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Old Aug 4, 2014 | 11:07 AM
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you're right ...
I expressed myself badly!

then a normal temperstura could stand on the 200?
some of you have never mounted a radiator with radiator core (I hope you sceiva so) greatest? the measures of my radiator are 5x50x80 cm if I mounted it one of the biggest benefits I might have or do not need?
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