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Save your knuckles, it's still overheating
Posted by Gary Piland [Email] (more from Gary Piland) on Fri, 08 Sep 2000 00:40:08
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You can stop knocking wood - it didn't help - my '67 V4 overheated again today and it was only around 90 degrees.
Drove home from work (30 miles) on the interstate at about 65mph and it stayed a little above the "N" all the way. Great I thought. WRONG!
Once I got off at the exit it started to climb. By the time I got home (about 5 minutes of 30 mph driving later) it was nearly to the red. Sitting in the driveway it wouldn't cool down even though the electric fan was blowing strongly and tranferring lots of heat from the radiator. Finally, I turned on the heater and fan and the gauge slowly began to drop. When it reached half-way between the N and the red I thought it must be cool enough to shut off. It sat silently for about 15 seconds and then started gurgling and boiled over! Should I call a priest to exorcise it?
My daily driver is turning into garage art. :-(
Bottom line - I'm running out of ideas here. Guess I'll replace the water pump and thermostat. Should I move to Alaska? Were the Saab engineers so incompetent in the 60s they couldn't build a car with even minimal cooling capacity? Don't scoff, I'm saying this as I think of how badly all long-nosed 96 hoods fit. What's up with that? ;-)
This is starting to make restoring a Renault Dauphine sound appealing. (Just kidding!)
Posts in this Thread:
- Save your knuckles, it's still overheating, Gary Piland, Fri, 08 Sep 2000 00:40:08 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Save your knuckles, it's still overheating, JT, Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:30:57
- Re: Save your knuckles, it's still overheating, TWD, Fri, 08 Sep 2000 14:15:44
- Re: Save your knuckles, it's still overheating, Randy, Fri, 08 Sep 2000 09:38:20
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