E36 issues

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 10/08/2013 at 18:04 • Filed to: None

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I burped my coolant system at school on a nasty gravel hill road because the fat ass campus cop said I couldn't do it on the paved one with better viability and closer a water fountain. During the middle of it my coolant temp dropped from operating temp around 200 something to 147. It stayed there my whole drive home, car ran just fine. Do I win a prize? Or did my Fail Safe thermostat take a shit and die?

vdub_nut: scooter snob > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2013 at 18:08

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Stock temp gauge on the dash? They're notoriously inaccurate in any car. VW's have a range from about 170-200 where it's supposed to settle dead on "190"

Unless it's a digital gauge, where it gives you an exact readout.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > vdub_nut: scooter snob 10/08/2013 at 18:09

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That was in the blue, my analog thermometer in my coolant line dose not lie.

505Turbeaux > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2013 at 18:12

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If it dropped and stayed in the middle of the gauge, you finally got all the air out. They have the coolant circulation pumps set high in the engine bay, so usually I loosen up the highest hose there too to be safe. That is e34 first hand knowledge, but if I remember correctly the 36 is pretty much the same setup.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > 505Turbeaux 10/08/2013 at 18:16

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I'm aware of how they work, I've had to do this many time before, but today the temp dropped out of the middle into the blue, and stayed there.

ddavidn > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2013 at 18:26

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By the time he got a tow truck there, you would've been done anyway...

505Turbeaux > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 10/08/2013 at 18:46

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At 147 you are in the blue? You talking c or f? Is that a hand held measurement? It shouldn't be in the blue. If your tstat was knackered it would be up to the red quickly

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > 505Turbeaux 10/08/2013 at 18:53

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F, from the thermometer in the line. Normally runs a lot higher, t-stat is a fail safe so that if it fails, it stays open.