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At a min - Thermostat was bad 200 1992

posted by  Birdfarmer on  Tue Aug 10 02:24 CST 2010
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Started up Vickie for a little drive this weekend - and the temp was red-lined before I got 5 miles from the house.

So I got back home and poped the thermostat. Yep, it was the original one!!! It had broken into a couple of pieces and was blocking the flow of coolant

(as I had mentioned in a previous post - she hasn't been run much this year - guess the pressure of driving 800 miles in 1 week was too much for that old rusted thermostat!).

I put in a "Zoned" special (195 degree) and filled it up with Coolant. After about 20 mintutes of idle with AC on - it was showing about 3/4 on the temp guage.

I'll probably drive her to work tomorrow on my 160 mile round trip. With the temp supoosed to be 100 and a heat index of 115 - We'll see if she does any better.

If she still gets hot, I may step down to a 180 thermostat. If that fails I may opt for a new radiator. Don't worry - just got in a new compensator board from Flee-bay and will swap it before I order the radiator!!!


(BTW - I had an old piece of Junk Mustang 2 (2.3 l) that always ran too hot. I swapped out everthing with no luck until I got to the radiator. The Radiator shop said the only thing holding it together WAS the rust. Put in a new one and she ran cool from then on! - - - thanks for Reminding me Brian!!)






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