Are your fans coming on? Sounds like you need to bleed the air out of the cooling system, because your thermo switch is not submerged in coolant. Sacha Prins wrote: <SNIP> > The other day I noticed that the cooling reservoir of my DeLorean was > empty, since I was a long way from home I added 2 liters (0.5 gallons?) > of water which filled the coolant reservoir to the required level. > > Today I was driving in a traffic jam and suddenly the temp meter went > to 104C (which is the last white line on the scale) and that scared me > a bit. When I caught speed again the temp meter dropped to a more > regular level. On the way back there was no traffic jam so I could > drive home without any temp problems. <SNIP>