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Old Aug 22, 2007 | 06:58 PM
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I have a fun one for ya. This last week I've noticed my AC is not cooling well especially if I'm sitting still. Today my engine over heated. What I figured out is this. If I run my car without the AC on, I stay very close to the 190 temp. If I turn it on, I run up to 240 within a block. If I turn the AC off again, within a couple of blocks, the temp is well on it's way back down.

How the heck is this happening??? I know I need to have the AC serviced, but how is it over heating the engine?
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 01:04 AM
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water pump is what it sounds like it cant keep up under a load
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 01:58 AM
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definently your fans for sure if its water pump this will be a constent problem but check out your fan relays for fan 1 and fan 2 and u should hear the fans come on when you turn on the ac so look out for that as well but check out the relays before going deeper
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 12:52 PM
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mine did that it was fan relay #2
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 06:12 PM
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If your fans are working perfectly than the front of your condensor is filled with crud and needs to be banged out.

How many miles do you have? I had the exact same symptoms and cleaning my condensor made the engine run cool as a cucumber with the A/C blasting in south Florida traffic and heat.


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