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Cooling system overheating after prestone flush.

posted by  someone claiming to be Lawrence on  Fri Jun 6 13:28 CST 2008 [RELATED]

The car is 240-90. Approx 170,000. Ive had it since 2000.
Ive already gone one round with the garden hose and spray nozzle.I spent about 15 mins blasting water from the inside out.Never seen so many dead bugs. It helped a little. But the temp started to climb again yesterday when the temp went into the mid to high 80s.

I didnt think about it(a senior moment)when I was flushing. I should've removed the radiator and really had at cleaning it.

Whats really od is that it started overheating after I flushed. On the other hand, the next day we had our first hot(90s)day for the season. So maybe the problem was already there waiting for the weather to change and it had nothing to do with the flush.
I don't know.
I bypassed the temp comp board, so it cant be that.
Lawrence





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