Overheating cause
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From: Guntersville Alabama
Overheating cause
Hey guys,
My 93 vert had been running 15 degrees hotter than normal. I thought it was just the heat. Last Wednesday it hit 255F and it puked coolant. I got on the forum yesterday so i could learn all of the possible causes. Needless to say I was discouraged about the possibility of minnor cracks or a blown head gasket. Anyway spent today draining and flushing radiator and engine. I was contemplating using steel seal product, then thought I would check the thermostat. I have never seen one fail but this one failed shut. It must have been partially closed for the last several months.
A quick fix and the car is running a cool 195 F.
Great forum!
My 93 vert had been running 15 degrees hotter than normal. I thought it was just the heat. Last Wednesday it hit 255F and it puked coolant. I got on the forum yesterday so i could learn all of the possible causes. Needless to say I was discouraged about the possibility of minnor cracks or a blown head gasket. Anyway spent today draining and flushing radiator and engine. I was contemplating using steel seal product, then thought I would check the thermostat. I have never seen one fail but this one failed shut. It must have been partially closed for the last several months.
A quick fix and the car is running a cool 195 F.
Great forum!
Racer
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 296
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From: Tipp City Ohio
Hey guys,
My 93 vert had been running 15 degrees hotter than normal. I thought it was just the heat. Last Wednesday it hit 255F and it puked coolant. I got on the forum yesterday so i could learn all of the possible causes. Needless to say I was discouraged about the possibility of minnor cracks or a blown head gasket. Anyway spent today draining and flushing radiator and engine. I was contemplating using steel seal product, then thought I would check the thermostat. I have never seen one fail but this one failed shut. It must have been partially closed for the last several months.
A quick fix and the car is running a cool 195 F.
Great forum!
My 93 vert had been running 15 degrees hotter than normal. I thought it was just the heat. Last Wednesday it hit 255F and it puked coolant. I got on the forum yesterday so i could learn all of the possible causes. Needless to say I was discouraged about the possibility of minnor cracks or a blown head gasket. Anyway spent today draining and flushing radiator and engine. I was contemplating using steel seal product, then thought I would check the thermostat. I have never seen one fail but this one failed shut. It must have been partially closed for the last several months.
A quick fix and the car is running a cool 195 F.
Great forum!
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 5,620
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From: Orlando FL
Nice job, but always start with the simple stuff first. Turns out I had a similar problem, a partially closed stat. It just kept climbing with time.
Wish I could follow my own advice sometimes. I at first ordered a radiator but before it arrived I found the bad stat. But with the new radiator which was about 1/2" larger, it ran cooler before the problem started.
Wish I could follow my own advice sometimes. I at first ordered a radiator but before it arrived I found the bad stat. But with the new radiator which was about 1/2" larger, it ran cooler before the problem started.
Safety Car
Joined: Apr 2011
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Hey guys,
My 93 vert had been running 15 degrees hotter than normal. I thought it was just the heat. Last Wednesday it hit 255F and it puked coolant. I got on the forum yesterday so i could learn all of the possible causes. Needless to say I was discouraged about the possibility of minnor cracks or a blown head gasket. Anyway spent today draining and flushing radiator and engine. I was contemplating using steel seal product, then thought I would check the thermostat. I have never seen one fail but this one failed shut. It must have been partially closed for the last several months.
A quick fix and the car is running a cool 195 F.
Great forum!
My 93 vert had been running 15 degrees hotter than normal. I thought it was just the heat. Last Wednesday it hit 255F and it puked coolant. I got on the forum yesterday so i could learn all of the possible causes. Needless to say I was discouraged about the possibility of minnor cracks or a blown head gasket. Anyway spent today draining and flushing radiator and engine. I was contemplating using steel seal product, then thought I would check the thermostat. I have never seen one fail but this one failed shut. It must have been partially closed for the last several months.
A quick fix and the car is running a cool 195 F.
Great forum!
never ever unless its a matter of life or death, use any form of stop leak in a radiator/motor that you want to run next week !
What happens with these products is that they often fail to seal the tiny leak because the pressure is so high in a small pin hole that they cannot gel or solidify. May, may not work. As soon as the car is shut down the stuff WILL turn solid in a water passage in the head and close off an entire water jacket...so you're flirting with disaster from then on and never know it because you don't see a rise in operating temps, the water just can;t flow to half the cyl head so it fries. And it gets solid too. Like a rock and theres no flushing it out. Last time I ran into this we used a chisle to chip the stuff out of the passage in the rear of the head. Block passage was caked as well.
