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> It sounds like your car has been behaving for a long time.
Yup, the Beast's running better than ever...I'm actually getting better mpg than it's spec'd for, plenty 'o' power too.
>It might just be the thermostat because if its been in there a long time its probably bad.
That would have been my first thought as well, except that I just replaced it a couple of months ago, before summer really started heating up. (you may remember me asking about a coolant leak that I ended up with during that process - it turned out that I had not "wrapped" the thermostat's rubber gasket around the little ridge, the gasket was kinda squashed down into the hole and was letting some juice go by.)
>You didn't mention if the afternoon drive was with the a/c on but that will raise the temp a bit.
Ah, if only I HAD A/C, I'd be a happy man, and I'd expect it to heat up a bit...but unfortunately the compressor's seized, and I'm running with no A/C for now.
I've checked to make sure the radiator's not blocked by debris, but I haven't flushed it (suppose I should have done that when I did the t-stat, huh?) so I'll try that at the next opportunity. The coolant is really clean & clear, not cloudy or rusty at all, so I didn't think about flushing it. Thanks for the tip!
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