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Coolant Temp-Hot or Not? (Thread split from "Water pump/front cover" thread)
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<blockquote data-quote="AApple" data-source="post: 59472" data-attributes="member: 56"><p>Otay ya'll...I put "The Turd"(and my patience) thru a sooper-dooper pressure test today. I got stuck in a major traffic jam this evening on the way home. <strong><span style="color: #BF0000">15</span> solid miles</strong> of stop/go traffic, in 100* temp. Temp gauge never got more than 3/4 at the very hottest....I, on the other hand, was waaaaaaay hotter than that! :rant: :heat: Once I cleared the trafffic, and got rolling again, it did cool back down to what has become "normal"....just a tad past 1/2 on the gauge. I think the cooling system is working fine, and the sender unit is just causing the gauge to read higher than before.....thass my story, and I'm stickin wid it. :cheeky: </p><p> :mrgreen: </p><p></p><p>Now...I fooled around with some stuff yesterday after I got home. I found an old front air dam/spoiler off the front of some kind of pick-up that I have had laying around here for years. I cut it in half, did a little here/there trimming, and the pieces fit perfectly along-side the radiator, to use as a scoop of sorts to direct more air into/thru the radiator. The pieces fit perfectly behind the chrome grill at the top, and curve around toward the front at the bottom. They taper from around 4" wide at the bottom down to about 3" wide at the top, and they're shaped to form a kind of funnel shape. All I need is a piece to connect the two pieces along the bottom that will also act as a scoop to direct the air upward. I have all kinds of stuff around here to use, including a large sheet of 5/16" clear plexiglass, and some sheets of aluminuminum. I have been looking at some of the pics in other threads to get ideas....I think I can make this thing look pretty neat, AND do what I want it to do. I'll be able to put some more time in on this fabrication this weekend, and gets some pics. :good:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AApple, post: 59472, member: 56"] Otay ya'll...I put "The Turd"(and my patience) thru a sooper-dooper pressure test today. I got stuck in a major traffic jam this evening on the way home. [b][color=#BF0000]15[/color] solid miles[/b] of stop/go traffic, in 100* temp. Temp gauge never got more than 3/4 at the very hottest....I, on the other hand, was waaaaaaay hotter than that! :rant: :heat: Once I cleared the trafffic, and got rolling again, it did cool back down to what has become "normal"....just a tad past 1/2 on the gauge. I think the cooling system is working fine, and the sender unit is just causing the gauge to read higher than before.....thass my story, and I'm stickin wid it. :cheeky: :mrgreen: Now...I fooled around with some stuff yesterday after I got home. I found an old front air dam/spoiler off the front of some kind of pick-up that I have had laying around here for years. I cut it in half, did a little here/there trimming, and the pieces fit perfectly along-side the radiator, to use as a scoop of sorts to direct more air into/thru the radiator. The pieces fit perfectly behind the chrome grill at the top, and curve around toward the front at the bottom. They taper from around 4" wide at the bottom down to about 3" wide at the top, and they're shaped to form a kind of funnel shape. All I need is a piece to connect the two pieces along the bottom that will also act as a scoop to direct the air upward. I have all kinds of stuff around here to use, including a large sheet of 5/16" clear plexiglass, and some sheets of aluminuminum. I have been looking at some of the pics in other threads to get ideas....I think I can make this thing look pretty neat, AND do what I want it to do. I'll be able to put some more time in on this fabrication this weekend, and gets some pics. :good: [/QUOTE]
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