Help with overheating
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Re: Help with overheating
Originally Posted by Moriar
Ive never done a H/G before. And the has to go back down to UNCC by sunday..
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Re: Help with overheating
Originally Posted by Cobra4B
Check the radiator and make sure it is free of any coatings or blocked. I know a guy who sucked up a plastic bag onto his radiator (in a C5) and it melted and got all in the fins. He went throuh hell trying to figure out what was wrong, then he pulled the radiator and noticed the fins were coated in melted plastic. Somehow the bag had gotten between the condenser and radiator!
Double check the t-stat in my truck it was sticking and caused overheating.
Also what's the normal temp range for your car. My stock t-stat is 192 and the cooling fans don't come on until 225 and 230 for the hi fan. It's how the car is designed to run, so in traffic I'll see 230 coolant temps.
Double check the t-stat in my truck it was sticking and caused overheating.
Also what's the normal temp range for your car. My stock t-stat is 192 and the cooling fans don't come on until 225 and 230 for the hi fan. It's how the car is designed to run, so in traffic I'll see 230 coolant temps.
It has 180 degree t-stat. are always on
I put my hands on both hose's and both are HOT and so i dont think its the t-stat.
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Re: Help with overheating
Originally Posted by drifterJERRY
i have to ask, what fan(s) are you running? you say its fine on the highway and then overheats when you come to slower traffic? am i reading it the right way?
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Re: Help with overheating
Originally Posted by Moriar
That is what my gauge looks like, but the one pictured above is a bmw, not nissan, and mine is reading 225 which is right next to "red"
Also, make sure you are running a 50/50 to 25/75 (green) coolant/water mix, don't use that orange shit.