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Running Hot, Tried Almost Everything To Keep My Cool 200 1981

posted by  someone claiming to be vguy75 on  Wed Jan 7 09:49 CST 2004 [RELATED]

Bob wrote:
Add more cooling area. Do this by running the car heater at full hot full fan, all windows open if necessary, and watching the temp gauge. If it drops, it's a clogged radiator. Sorry.
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My 245 used to do that - it worsened at the end of last summer.

I'd put the heater on and it would "solve" the problem. Only happened in hot summer weather in stop and go traffic or idling for 10 min in hot summer weather. Near the end of the summer the "heater trick" wasn't as effective and the car would heat up sooner. I also noticed that anti-freeze would begin to very slowly leak out of the coolant reservoir when the needle was still in the safe zone - this mainly occured when I stopped and shut the car off.

The car is stored for the winter and in the spring I'm planning on installing a new rad.

Could it be a combo of the head gasket and the rad? I've never run the car into the hot area / had a boil-over.


Any info will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jaak





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