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Overheating problem.
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:43 amby Greasedmonkey
I seem to have one hell of problem with over heating now. Ive changed radiators, caps, t stats and bled the system. Yet after a while it starts all over again. I bleed it again and it goes away. I only seem to overheat while at a stop, like the fan doesnt come on at all. So I got a new fan switch. bled the system again and everything was great. Now tnight it starts all over again. How in the world am I getting air in the system all the time? Are there any other things I should look for?
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:15 pmby drew_ej2_owner
could possible be the head gasket!
hope not..
but ummm did u check if the fan turns in the right direction?
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:17 pmby suspendedHatch
Air could be introduced at the FITV. Possibly at the heater system. Have you altered your hoses in any way? You haven't mentioned your water pump... Hope it's not your head gasket. Good luck.
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:23 pmby Greasedmonkey
How could air be introduced by the FITV? The fan turns on, but only after I bleed it and everything starts working great. its after a while that things start going bad again. coolant keeps filling up the resavoir and not going back into the system. Air seems to be getting into the system and getting stuck by the fan switch to be making it not turn on. hence the over heating at stops.
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:17 pmby Greasedmonkey
ive pretty much decided its the head gasket. Kinda sucks, but oh well. Im picking one up tomorrow along with all the coolant hoses. Every damned one of them. Im not leaving anything untouched.
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:51 pmby asianrob
water pump
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:32 amby Greasedmonkey
It wouldnt be the water pump. Coolant still flows through everything.
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:15 amby id3379
have you tried getting a new FAN ?
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:01 amby Greasedmonkey
The fan works. Ive seen it turn on.
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:22 amby asianrob
Greasedmonkey wrote:It wouldnt be the water pump. Coolant still flows through everything.
coolant flowed thru my LS and it did similar to what your saying it would only over heat in the summer but never the winter and then i changed it and it ran normal lol
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:06 pmby teal_dx
Had the exact same experience and it was a leaking headgasket between #2 and #3 cyls
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:14 pmby WannaBe
thermostat, maybe?
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:34 pmby Greasedmonkey
new thermostat.
Ill be replacin the head gasket. Going today to get it. I looked at a spare LS head I have laying arround with a old HG and saw what could be going on.
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:06 pmby asianrob
you should go a head and change the Water pump tensior and timing belt and possibly oil pump if any of them are old too
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:42 pmby Greasedmonkey
all of it is new. The guy i got the car from replaced all that. I went and ordered all the hoses and the head gasket today. My price on a D series head gasket is 25 bucks....i was amazed..