Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:21:38 -0700
Reply-To: Craig Oda <craigoda@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Craig Oda <craigoda@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Back on the road but running warm or faulty gauge
In-Reply-To: <CGEFJBDNAJIKINDGMKEFGEPOCFAA.antelopewesty@adelphia.net>
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Kevin
I didn't see your original post. I'm copying the list in case I give
faulty advice, someone can give you better advice. :-)
You may have dislodged some gunk in your cooling system that is
jamming up your radiator. If you put your hand near the front of it,
is the entire surface getting hot evenly?
The other unlikely situation is that your cylinder head has a small
crack in it or the inner seal is somehow letting the exhaust come in
contact with a bit of coolant.
Is your coolant level steady on a long drive? Do you have white smoke
coming out of the exhaust? If you have white smoke, it should be more
than the normal amount that comes from condensation.
If you bled the system recently, the coolant level may be going down
and you're thinking that it's going down because air is coming out of
the system? If the level is going down, you also might have a leak
somewhere inside the heads, which would also contribute to the higher
temps.
When you changed the head gaskets, did you also change the thin green
and black o-rings on the outside of the cylinder? They look really
easy to break or get squished out of the groove.
Regards,
Craig
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:05:15 -0400, Kevin <antelopewesty@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> One week after the start of the project I'm back on the road. So here is
> the deal. Motor sounds great! No leaks. But my coolant gauge still rides
> just above the LED and the low speed fan comes in traffic at about 3/4 up
> the gauge. Now I can't seem to get any more air out of the system at all so
> I feel it is bleed correctly as heat works perfect and I have not had to add
> any coolant yet. Now in theory there should be no way for it to be running
> hot as I have a new T-stat, pressure cap, rad, rad fan switch, low speed
> resistor (figure it was $30 insurance and now I have a spare) most coolant
> hoses, head gaskets water pump and that's just coolant system restore did
> lots of other stuff as well. Now the old rad did have some crap in it but
> it is running the same with the temp just above led like one needle and in
> traffic at about 80f in traffic the temp will go up to 3/4 and the low
> speed fan kicks in. Not sure what to do next? Any tips on this one would
> be great. Thanks for everyone's help so far. Hoping to get this settled so
> I can go to greyfox on sat.
>
> Kevin
> 87 Westy
> Burlington VT
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