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Re: Thermostat Housing Temperatur
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11/20/16 12:47 PM
11/20/16 12:47 PM
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RapidRobert
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Car does appear to be overheating as radiator cap can be removed by hand 20 min after shutting down Did you mean to say that the car DOES NOT appear to be overheating cuz the cap can be safely removed? 195 is excellent. I would take off the cap & check it with a candy thermometer from your grocery store (they're cheap) just to get that out of the way. then we can move on to the cranking: check the cranking voltage at the battery then pull the secondary coil wire out of the dist & ground it & crank again. that'd be a start
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Re: Thermostat Housing Temperatur
[Re: ROADRCR]
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11/20/16 02:06 PM
11/20/16 02:06 PM
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RapidRobert
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I would go by the coolant temp & 195 is perfect. on the temp gun someone posted about using a piece of duct tape on shiney surfaces to get a good reading (iirc). If you ground the coil wire that will take timing/DCR out of the picture and then do cranking voltage for the battery/cables. starters are weird electrical devices in that the slower they turn the more amps they draw & this compounds in a matter of seconds till you are down to slow cranking or machine clicking of the pull in/hold in circuits in the solenoid. EDIT the battery is always the starting point, do you have another known good battery that you could borrow for a quick test. I've heard bad regarding Optimas' (but we are the fixit dept so we get nothing but bad) with a few exceptions. MORE EDIT you might put a torque wrench or just a breaker bar & a 1&1/4" socket on the crank bolt & check it when hot, then when cold. the more info the better
Last edited by RapidRobert; 11/20/16 02:13 PM.
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Re: Thermostat Housing Temperatur
[Re: ROADRCR]
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11/21/16 01:27 AM
11/21/16 01:27 AM
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RapidRobert
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the temp is good, now we can check other potentials for the hard cranking. Keep us updated
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Re: Thermostat Housing Temperatur
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11/26/16 09:22 PM
11/26/16 09:22 PM
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RapidRobert
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Barely after warm up period radiator started spewing antifreeze out the filler neck with or without cap. Stuck stat (hopefully) or cracked block/head(s) or head gasket(s). impeller might of slipped (rare tho)
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Re: Thermostat Housing Temperatur
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11/26/16 09:43 PM
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Barely after warm up period radiator started spewing antifreeze out the filler neck with or without cap. Stuck stat (hopefully) or cracked block/head(s) or head gasket(s). impeller might of slipped (rare tho) I agree with RR..
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