Radiator help
10-03-2017, 10:20 AM
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I have a low temp t-stat (160, I believe). I only see 185* max.
They aren't very hard to bleed though, so that's curious why yours is running hot. The only thing I do when refilling the coolant is to give the upper radiator hose a couple squeezes while it's running and top the reservoir off once or twice as it needs it.
They aren't very hard to bleed though, so that's curious why yours is running hot. The only thing I do when refilling the coolant is to give the upper radiator hose a couple squeezes while it's running and top the reservoir off once or twice as it needs it.
10-03-2017, 10:40 AM
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Yea i been doing that as the engine warms up, with the heat on, and the cap off the reservoir. Havent seen any air pockets, ill try it again today
10-03-2017, 04:48 PM
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If you don't have a tune, then your stock fan settings don't kick on until like 220 and 228 or something like that. Stock t-stat is 196, so if you're at 200ish in motion I'd say that's pretty normal.
10-03-2017, 08:11 PM
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Ok thanks, yea its around 200ish in motion, how are u guys bleeding the radiator after a refill? I thought it takes 3 gallons and i didnt even get 2 gallons in there.
10-04-2017, 08:30 PM
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I need to put them in eventually, my old ones are just torn to peices and break when i touch or move them.
Cant find nothing online about how to change them out, kinda looks like the bumper has to come off, or atleast the grille, but i never took the bumper or grille off before on this car
Cant find nothing online about how to change them out, kinda looks like the bumper has to come off, or atleast the grille, but i never took the bumper or grille off before on this car
10-04-2017, 09:07 PM
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Forgot to post these the other day when i received it, but i also noticed a small dent or hole, but it just looks like whatever hit it just hit the fins and not the other part. But its been fine so far, just hope it dont start leaking in that area
10-04-2017, 09:12 PM
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Another pic of where the hole was, so it had that lil hole and a broken top mount. From where ever it came from or from amazon or the usps mailman. But i figured it should work and i shouldnt hassle with sending it back and trying to wait another week on another one
10-04-2017, 10:24 PM
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That is the one downside of the ACDelco radiators, the packaging is absolute ******* garbage. I got 3 from Amazon, all of which were in their original GM/ACDelco packaging, and all of which were damaged to some extent. Meanwhile, the cheapass Spectra radiator came beautifully packaged, nice and secure in its box. I can't figure out why/how ACDelco can use such shitty packaging for something that can quite obviously be damaged easily. 