[TR] Getting close on the TR4A

[Geo Hahn]

Here are some links to your vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDC6Ts2lZ6o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5r9BwFWeM

Nice!

Geo


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Geo Hahn <ahwahneetr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave -
>
> I always drill a little hole in the thermostat (some come that way) just
> to be sure the system fills well.  But having said that, from your
> description I would be more suspicious of the radiator cap than the
> thermostat.
>
> More car parts places (even chains) have a loaner tester for the radiator
> cap.
>
> Geo
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Dave Connitt <dconnitt at fuse.net> wrote:
>
>> I figured out how to post videos on YouTube and have one of a walk around
>> the
>> car and one of the engine running.
>> Just do a search on DAVESTR4A. They aren't very long but you can see the
>> car.
>> I have a overheating problem that I think is related to a air bubble in
>> the
>> thermostat housing?
>> First symptom is that the temperature gauge doesn't work and the fuel
>> gauge
>> does.
>> Second symptom is that the top radiator hose expanded about 50% larger
>> before
>> things started leaking.
>> At first I thought the sending unit on the temp. gauge was bad because i
>> shorted the sending unit wire to ground and the gauge went full scale so I
>> ordered a new sensor.
>> After I ordered it, I got to thinking that maybe the entire thermostat
>> housing
>> was all air inside so the thermostat never opens which forces the top hose
>> expansion.
>> Well, I tore one of the gaskets in the thermostat housing last night
>> trying to
>> run without a thermostat and decided it would be a good time to quit. I
>> know I
>> checked the thermostat before I installed it and it opened about 190 or
>> so.
>> I couldn't get to it tonight but thought I would share my problem and see
>> if
>> anybody agrees.
>> Dave Connitt
>>
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