Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 2015 18:51:08 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: 87 Syncro no temp gauge
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At 05:09 PM 9/5/2015, Kk Al wrote:
>still getting warm, the heaters still work and the coolant level is fine.

"Coolant level is fine" means that it's full or nearly full in the
pressure bottle that you have to open the lid to see.  The level in
the overflow bottle is not a useful check on what's actually in the
system, unfortunately.  In theory it should be; in practice not
always.  The overflow bottle itself is not necessary to system
operation; you could run for years without one, as all cars did for
many decades.

Yrs,
d