RE: overheating-I give up

["Pollard, Nathan" <Nathan.Pollard@GranadaMedia.com>]

I have been experiencing a sharp rise of the coolant temp guage myself
recently with no fan cutting in and a lot of worry in bust London traffic. I
have replaced the fan, coolant tank, sensor etc and flushed the system only
to find that a supposedly empty set of pipes would only accept 3 litres of
liquid intake instead of the suggested 6.5.

Time to get the special cleaning products in me thinks, flush once more and
see if I can get the required amount of coolant and water back in.


The temp sensor is easy to test and running a cleaner through the system to
remove crud is definitely worthwhile (I already have a new radiator so it
better not be that!!!)...


N.
84 Scirocco Storm

> ----------
> From: 	Shawn C Meze[SMTP:skerocdriver@juno.com]
> Sent: 	30 May 2001 05:30
> To: 	abatzis2@hotmail.com
> Cc: 	scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: 	Re: overheating-I give up
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 00:41:53 -0400 "Michael Abatzis"
> <abatzis2@hotmail.com> writes:
> >i'm ashamed of you ron! buy another gauge? no! 
> 
> 
> Yeah Ron, GEEZ!
> 
> 
> >and shawn, if it's
> >corroded water jackets, wouldn't the coolant have crap in it when 
> >flushed?
> >-michael
> 
> 
> OOPS. 
> Well. not really. Ive seen coolant passages so clogged up that only a
> trip to the hot tank would clear them out fully. You can sometimes flush
> and flush a system and the only thing that comes out is the tippy toppy
> surface debris from inside. Some of that stuff is so caked and well
> bonded that ive resorted to taking a screwdriver to the stuff to get it
> broken loose and only then would a hot tank treatment of the block fully
> clear out the passages. 
> It just depends on how bad the block is to begin with. Could be that his
> problems are nothing like what I describe and his only problem is one of
> the electric positron fluctuation of their polarity flow is way beyond
> wack. You know, sez its hot but it really aint. Could be. 
> 
> 
> Shawn Méze
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