"valve_float" (valve_float)
01/25/2014 at 23:25 • Filed to: None
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"valve_float" (valve_float)
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do you overheat in 20 degree weather? even with the hood poped, and hte engine bay packed with snow, my camaro love to over heat when it gets cold. when its 50 out, its fine, but get below freezing, and it overheats like its 110* out
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> valve_float
01/25/2014 at 23:28 |
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Sounds like maybe a coolant line is freezing and perhaps preventing the engine form cooling properly. Are you running a 50/50 antifreeze mix?
awe46m3zcp
> valve_float
01/25/2014 at 23:29 |
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Have you checked the coolants freezing point? Maybe its freezing somewhere preventing it from circulating? Or you have a bad temp sensor?
Jonathan Harper
> valve_float
01/25/2014 at 23:42 |
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Well there's your problem. You poped the hood. You need to poop the hood. Then it will work.
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/25/2014 at 23:54 |
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Check to make sure your thermostat isn't sticking in the "closed" position? I dunno, man.
tylinol
> valve_float
01/25/2014 at 23:57 |
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Invest in one of those infrared thermometer things and start poking around under there. If you find a spot in the cooling circuit that's cold when everything else is hot, then you've found the problem!
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> valve_float
01/26/2014 at 04:56 |
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Is the top of the radiator hot and the bottom cold, or is it hot all the way through?
frognuts
> valve_float
01/26/2014 at 11:38 |
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You might try putting a piece of cardboard over the upper portion of your radiator.
When things warm up, look under your hood to inspect the thermostat housing. Check to see if there is any way you could insulate it. Perhaps wadding tinfoil around it to reflect heat pack into the housing itself... I suspect that the cold air blowing across the outside of the housing is preventing the wax within the 'stat from softening to the degree necessary to allow the coolant to flow from radiator to engine... Cutting off any way that cooler air could get to it might help the problem.
This may be another one of those "Groan and get it over with" winterization steps that many vehicles have. I've had experiences with old pickups in sub-zero temperatures where the coolant actually froze (due to an improper mixture of coolant/water in the stystem) within the radiator while the vehicle was moving.
Blocking off the radiator in weather that cold won't cause too many issues with the regular operating temperature of the vehicle so long as the ambient temperature of the air is low enough to properly absorb heat energy from the general underhood area.
Try the cardboard as a temporary fix and explore the feasibility of insulating the thermostat housing if it is exposed.
TwoFortified
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/27/2014 at 19:49 |
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God, reach back in history and touch something OLD. AFAIK, thermostats have failed open since, like, the 80's.
...I mean, it's good advice, but what are the odds?
...also, wouldn't his radiator, then, be cold, because the water isn't circulating?