RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Easy, just bypassed the otterstat and wired the wires together, on all the 
time (with the key on).
- VB

>From: "Travis Goodwin" <tgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
>Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:04:30 -0400
>
>Bob, how did you go about wiring the fans for on all the time?
>
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>Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:56 PM
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>Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
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>I am still having my over heating problem.
>I have topped off the coolant, and I have an air bleeder installed.
>I have wired the fans to be on full time, still the car over heats.
>Mostly with the AC on, you can get around OK with the AC off, but
>within minutes of turning the AC on the needle rises.
>The water appears to be flowing, and the fans are on....
>I must mention that I do have Hervey's new fans installed.
>They are very quite, you can barely hear them running.
>So, I am not sure if they are running as fast as they need to be
>because I have no frame of reference to compare them to because when
>I first got my car it was November, and then I wrecked it in July and
>replaced
>the OEM fans with Herveys, so I have only experienced his fans in the
>summer.
>The Texas summer is brutal....
>
>I don't know why the hell the car isn't cooling, it was fine last
>summer.
>So the only things I can think of are that maybe the fans are for some
>reason
>not running at full speed, or the thermostat is sticking, or the water
>pump
>is not working
>correctly.... any suggestions?
>
>Does anyone know what the cross reference of the thermostat is for
>Autozone?
>
>- Videobob
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> >From: "Travis Goodwin" <tgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
> >Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:16:02 -0400
> >
> >This is a for real question.
> >
> >My car seemed to be overheating at lunch today. Within 3 minutes, the
> >temp was almost 200 degrees. Despite the high temp, the fans didn't
>come
> >on. That says one thing to me: air pocket.
> >
> >So, I checked the coolant level real quick and it was indeed low. A
>stop
> >at Advance Auto to top it off and the temp leveled off. I drove it 20
> >miles home with the temp level. It got only as high at 160 or so by the
> >time I navigated all the traffic.
> >
> >Do you agree that with an air pocket causing the thermostat to read too
> >high, it can seem as if the fans are not working correctly because the
> >coolant temp is not high enough to trigger the otterstat?
> >
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