Coolant Temperature - Do I have a problem?
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Re: Coolant Temperature - Do I have a problem? (Corvette Kid 92)
I did not have any overheating, but found lots of junk in the rad area of my low mi. car. Take a looksee...
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Re: Coolant Temperature - Do I have a problem? (Jimi Lane)
Jimi, don't tell me that you pull your radiator out every month! thr shroud itself is a pain thanks to the dreaded 7mm bolts. do you back flush with a hose from the fan side? How do you keep from getting the optispark wet and still have room to get a hose in there? Or do you just squirt it from the space between the condensor and the radiator? please explain I'm all ears :bigears
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Re: Coolant Temperature - Do I have a problem? (LouisBarton)
No, don't take the radiator out unless I'm doing the coolant ( or replacing the opti, done that twice ). I have one of those garden nozzles that you can bend at the end that can get all around in there from the fan side. Then I stick it between the condenser and the radiator to clean the condenser. I put about 1500 miles a month on the car. There is always stuff in there. I 've got THIS opti sealed up tight, and did the vent mod you always hear about. I don't spray water ANYWHERE near the opti at all, I put a towel over the opti when I spray out the radiator. I can really tell the difference after sitting in traffic. The temps cool down much quicker when I get back up to speed on the highway. My temp on the highway runs 188-189 with the air off, about 192-194 with the air.
Once my temps were getting up to 228 degrees really quick while sitting in traffic, then when I started onto the highway, the temps were real slow to cool and never went below about 215. I stopped and checked out the radiator. There was a huge foam cup in there that had split down the side and was covering a third of radator!
When I first bought the car, it had a bent thermostat. The part in the middle of the spring was bent and the whole spring and eveything was curved. The temps then were running around 220 on the digital guage driving down the highway, and the analog guage wasn't working. Don't know how the thermostat got bent, but everything worked fine after I was done...
jimilane
[Modified by Jimi Lane, 4:13 PM 8/10/2001]
Once my temps were getting up to 228 degrees really quick while sitting in traffic, then when I started onto the highway, the temps were real slow to cool and never went below about 215. I stopped and checked out the radiator. There was a huge foam cup in there that had split down the side and was covering a third of radator!
When I first bought the car, it had a bent thermostat. The part in the middle of the spring was bent and the whole spring and eveything was curved. The temps then were running around 220 on the digital guage driving down the highway, and the analog guage wasn't working. Don't know how the thermostat got bent, but everything worked fine after I was done...
jimilane
[Modified by Jimi Lane, 4:13 PM 8/10/2001]
