James,
Is not 210-ish rather high? Electric fans come on at 170 so one assumes
that this is getting close to being too hot. What is the "ideal" temp I
wonder? Anyone want to advise on this?
At 07:55 PM 6/27/02 -0600, james wrote:
>Yesterday I drove the V8 to work and back (20mi eachway), I overheated once in
>each direction. On the way down I popped a hose off of one of my hard lines.
>On the way back I just overheated since I welded beads onto the ends of the
>hardlines to retain them. After a little roadside diagnosis, I discovered
>that I had my fans blowing in the wrong direction. The poor things were
>blowing out the front of the car fighting the air. After fixing this and
>driving to work again, I am running at 200-210 on the highway, and 210-220 in
>traffic, not bad in my estimation.
>
>I still haven't looked into the running probs although with the better cooling
>the car will restart when hot. But I'll save that for a separate message.
>
>james
Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson - barrier@bconnex.net
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