So in another thread I solved my non running fan motor. Replaced motor and everything fine. Took Mrs. Boomer to our favorite drive-in burger place where you turn on your headlights to place your order. Well, drivers side light only opens half way. Well crap just what I need. Jump onto the forum that night and find an 8 year old thread recommending trying the lights with the hood open in case there is a wire or something in the way. Sure enough I had dislodged the wheel well to hood seal while putting the new motor in. It was half hanging down by the vacuum ball. Easy fix but I could have noticed it earlier if I had half a brain.

I had been driving it without a working fan motor planning my routes to avoid stopping. It worked for the most part but one trip I risked it a little too much and it reached 245* before I got it back in the garage. It was gurgling a bit but I saw no leaks. That convinced me though to wait for the new fan motor before any more risky behavior.

So new fan motor and I notice just a few drops of coolant in my catch pan on the floor, thought no big deal, went for a nice drive with a working fan motor. Well... still reaching over 210 when it used to always stay in the 184-190 range. I pop the radiator cap this morning and hello no coolant visible. Grab a long transmission funnel and top of with straight antifreeze. Todays trip nice and cool 184-190 just like I like it.

Gee I'm dumb.

 

Nah, you’re just figuring out these mysterious old cars like the rest of us.

 

You may be dumb but you're smarter than me.

 

Its not dumb if you found and fixed the issue.

 

Thank you everbody I feel better now. Next step is restoring original wiring to high pressure switch and CTS so I can try to get the AC working again. I have 4 cans of R12 and a proper recharge hose once I get to that point. I'll be putting in a lower temp CTS and thermostat as well.

 

Happens to all of us at various times.

 

Really smart GM engineers built these C-4s, they know how they work it's for us to figure them out it's kinda like a cross-word puzzle on 4-wheels .. Over engineering comes to mind ,it's in the manual right , I can't figure that deal out either ,The GM Corvette line techs at the time used the Tech 1 to fill in the blanks ,if you read the manual it says: Do this do that if can't figure it out plug in the Teck 1 , very few has assess to one so we are on or own ,A good example I had a no fire deal with my 93 LT-1 looked for days plug in a Teck-1 Bam 5 min later bad plug . Just saying these old C-4 with their old HI tech systems can be a challenge.

 

Yep, pouring antifreeze into the radiator like it's free. Heard something tinkling on the garage floor. Put it up in the air again and closed the petcock. duh.

 

95% of Corvette owners who do their own work will tell you they have made a dumb mistake on occasion.

The other 5% are liars.