RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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



>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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