Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm.....POSITIVE.
(pun intended)
- VB

>From: Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
>Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:19:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Are you sure the fans are spinning the correct
>direction?  Maybe you wired them backward!
>
>
>--- Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It was last summer that I hade Hervey tune up my
> > car, he changed the plugs,
> > cap and rotor
> > and a few other things. Cost me about $400 or more
> > for the stuff he did but
> > to be honest
> > I don't think the car really needed it because I
> > couldn't feel a difference.
> >
> > One major issue I keep having is my high idle.
> > It idles so high that I can curise down the road at
> > 40PMH and never touch
> > the gas.
> > The tach hovers around 1500/2000 at idle.
> > I have the adjustment all the way to the bottom, and
> > the switch is
> > working.....
> >
> > I took the car for a ride last night, it was a
> > fairly cool night as compared
> > to the 90+ weather
> > we have been having, so with the AC off it seems to
> > be OK, ran a c-hair over
> > the first mark
> > but was doing fine. SO I got cocky and tried the AC.
> > IN about a 2 miles the needle was climbing.
> > Something about that AC is causeing some major heat
> > issues.
> >
> > The thing about Hervey's fans is, they are totally
> > not nessesary unless you
> > have damaged
> > your OEM fans and shroud.
> > In my situation I had a front end collision and my
> > radiator was broken, the
> > fans had fried up
> > and the shroud exploded.
> > I needed to replace it all....so Hervey's fans were
> > a good solution.
> > However, you would be better off to buy one of his
> > larger alternators like a
> > a Brute 150
> > and then you would have all the power you need for
> > the fans.
> > The original fans have some serious blow, and you
> > can hear them running.
> > Hervey's new fans are more subtle and quite, you
> > have to stick your head
> > down
> > by the front of the car to hear them running!
> > Besides, if you go to most any hot-rod shop you can
> > buy fans like these
> > fairly cheap,
> > strap or weld two of them together and strap them to
> > the radiator yourself.
> >
> > I know that one of the things I am going to do in my
> > BTTF conversion is
> > install two small
> > fans on the decklid to blow engine heat out the
> > aluminum vents so they will
> > have some
> > function. I bet it would make a difference.
> >
> > - VB
> >
> > >From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
> > >Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:40:26 -0500
> > >
> > >Maybe it is not tuned up properly. I was told if it
> > is tuned properly
> > >you dont even need fans. HA HA HA.
> > >
> > >I am really leaning to the cooling fans you
> > installed being the
> > >problem. I hope this is not the issue though
> > because i have been
> > >thinking of getting that set you bought from John
> > Hervey.
> > >
> > >The missing shroud around the radiator shouldn't
> > make a difference too
> > >much if it is missing, i dont have one on my car.
> > >
> > >Mark V
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >On Jul 9, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
> > >
> > > > ...when one of your hoses explodes and blows
> > antifreeze all over the
> > > > back
> > > > window and boiling green blasts all over the
> > place.... hot enough for
> > > > ya?
> > > > This is what happened to me a few weekends ago.
> > > > I decided to take it for a cruise in downtown
> > Dallas on warm night.
> > > > It stayed pretty normal on the 20 mile trip
> > there with the AC on low.
> > > > Once I got into the stop and go of cruising it
> > started to get hot.
> > > > I decided to take a side street and head for the
> > highway to cool it
> > > > down,
> > > > the needle was rising, I turned off the AC and
> > switch to the heater to
> > > > pull
> > > > the heat out
> > > > but it was too late, the needle was rising and
> > then BOOM, SPLASH!
> > > > I sat in a parking lot with a blasted hose until
> > 4am.
> > > > I managed to get a friend to find an all night
> > auto parts store and
> > > > get me
> > > > a peice of hose.
> > > > My hoses were new, only a year old, I had put
> > all of Heverys replacment
> > > > hoses
> > > > on but this one decided to split right up the
> > middle!
> > > >
> > > > Something is going on.....
> > > >
> > > > - VB
> > > >
> > > >> From: "therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>
> > > >> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >> Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
> > > >> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:38:22 -0000
> > > >>
> > > >> VB, what do you consider "overheating"? How far
> > does the needle creep
> > > >> up, and where does it hover around when
> > driving?
> > > >>
> > > >> -Robert
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob
> > Moseley" <videobob@xxxx>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>> It is one of Hervey's new larger metal
> > radiators.
> > > >>> - VB
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> From: Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx>
> > > >>>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >>>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >>>> Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
> > > >>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> How old is the radiator?  Maybe it is
> > clogged?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> --- Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxx> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> 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....
> >
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