5.3 getting hot. On 68 degree day
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Doesn't matter if "it works" for one situation or not. It's not right. Cheeeeeeeeep and eeeeeeeeeeezy to make it better.
Undo the "looped" heater circuit. It allows hot water to pass directly from the top of the engine right back into the "cooled" side. Kinda the same effect as, if your radiator was just a piece of hose.
Undo the "looped" heater circuit. It allows hot water to pass directly from the top of the engine right back into the "cooled" side. Kinda the same effect as, if your radiator was just a piece of hose.
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00pooterSS (06-10-2020)
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Get rid of the loop.
What it creates is, a hose that carries hot water out of the hot side of the motor, right straight back into the cold side, without passing through the radiator first. However much of the coolant that passes that way, DOESN'T GET COOLED.
Read that carefully: some part of the coolant DOESN'Y GET COOLED. How can this NOT be a bad thing?
May not be "The Problem", but it's SURE AS HELL not part of the solution. Whatever The Problem is, that's making it worse.
OTOH, it just MIGHT BE The Problem.
Try it and find out.
What it creates is, a hose that carries hot water out of the hot side of the motor, right straight back into the cold side, without passing through the radiator first. However much of the coolant that passes that way, DOESN'T GET COOLED.
Read that carefully: some part of the coolant DOESN'Y GET COOLED. How can this NOT be a bad thing?
May not be "The Problem", but it's SURE AS HELL not part of the solution. Whatever The Problem is, that's making it worse.
OTOH, it just MIGHT BE The Problem.
Try it and find out.
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I had one wierd thing happen. All a sudden it dropped to 160. Then when back up slowly
Maybe it is air.
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Leak down check is good so my next step is I'm gonna pick up the radiator about a foot maybe its having a problem on top hose since radiator is so low. If that dont work I'll have to get a dummy radiator and switch them out even though mine is brand new
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I can see the water moving