VANAGON archives -- July 2004, week 2 (#423)

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:29:21 -0400 Reply-To: Kevin <antelopewesty@ADELPHIA.NET> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Kevin <antelopewesty@ADELPHIA.NET> Subject: Re: Back on the road but running warm or faulty gauge In-Reply-To: <019igNae80832S11.1089763499@cmsweb11.cms.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Thanks everyone, I made it to radio shack just in time and picked up an inferred thermometer. Seems like everything is in check. Most cylinder head temps and coolant hoses were between 191-200. The low speed fan brought the temps way down when it came on for a min but the vanagon gauge bearly noticed. Seems like I need to check my voltages at the gauge and instrument voltage stabilizer. Any way it's a big sigh of relief to know things seem to be working I'll have to check a little more tomorrow just to be safe. Thanks Again, Kevin

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 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.

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