Overheating - Page 2

TheDude · 09-08-2006, 11:48 PM

im extremley interested to see how this one plays out....I HATE DEALERSHIP SERVICE MANAGERS...99.9% of them seem to be dead set on screwing people over

dude

b_a_betterperson · 09-09-2006, 01:49 AM

Wow, what a moron. I ran into that with my dealer. Went in with a list of several small problems -- and they didn't fix any of them. Idiots. BTW, when your car starts heating up -- put the heater on full blast. That will help cool the engine down faster.

TheDude · 09-11-2006, 12:08 AM

any updates?

dude

bigmac · 09-09-2007, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Cottonfarmer

About a month ago I responded to a post (can't remember who it was that started the thread) about a fellow's GTO overheating and boiling out the water. Mine did the same thing but didn't lose any coolant. Well about a week ago, the wife was driving and mentioned that the car did it again but quickly cooled itself off after she started moving. Tonight I take the car to the service station for a tank of gas and it did it to me. The temp gauge went all the way to the last red mark. I shut it down for about five minutes and restarted. It had dropped back a bit and I expected it to return to normal but it instead started climbing up the hot mark again. This time I shut it down and waited about 15 minutes and restarted it. I had about a mile drive back to the house and while going down the road, I noticed the temp gauge started making some rapid excursions up and then down but never getting to the hot mark. After I got home, I checked the coolant level and saw that it was down a small bit. I added about a gallon of water, which actually overfilled it a bit.

When this happened the first time to the wife, I assumed that the fans weren't kicking it on time. After tonight I find that is not the case as the fans start kicking in very soon after the temp gauge passes the middle mark on the scale. I also noticed a bit of "hot" coolant smell when this happened to me tonight so without a doubt the temp is actually getting up there.

Now my diagonsis is that the thermostat is sticking and if anyone has any other ideas I would be most appreciative to hear them. Tomorrow the Goat goes off to the dealer for a thermostat replacement at my demand unless someone else on the forum has another theory.

Thank goodness no appreciable coolant loss was experienced so I'm not concerned about any engine damage. This problem has the potential of destroying an engine if not attended to.

Thanks for any replies. -Jim

I know I'm reviving an old thread, but I am having the same problem. Unfortuatly, my raditor is 'bone dry'. I added a gallion of water to get it to the dealership, but no luck. It overheats, to the point when I turn off the car the fans are still running!!!

So off to the dealership it goes. But I think Im getting towed in!!!

Cottonfarmer · 09-09-2007, 04:13 PM

I never did convince the dealer that the thermostat was the problem. He said the radiator was stopped up (this was when the car only had 16,000 miles on it. It's got 36,000 now) Anyway, after I picked the car up, it overheated again and I had to stop twice to let it cool on the 5 mi. trip home. I was so pissed I went to another dealer in another town about 30 mi. down the road and bought a thermostat on my own nickel and installed it myself. Problem solved.

What really pissed me off is that the dealer took the word of a 24 year old "technician" over mine. My 40 plus years of working on a farm, overhauling engines, doing all kinds of repair work, etc. meant nothing.

My loss was a few bucks for the price of a thermostat and a bit of time getting the part and installing it while the dealers loss was losing a good customer.

I hope you get your heating problem resolved without the hassle I had. Get your car towed and don't risk destroying a very expensive engine. -Jim

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Originally Posted by bigmac

I know I'm reviving an old thread, but I am having the same problem. Unfortuatly, my raditor is 'bone dry'. I added a gallion of water to get it to the dealership, but no luck. It overheats, to the point when I turn off the car the fans are still running!!!

So off to the dealership it goes. But I think Im getting towed in!!!

goat670 · 08-10-2008, 10:20 AM

i have massive overheating. the block is from a 1972 400 code yx,i have 1967 heads and intake,timing cover,,massive radiator,water wetter, everything is new. any compatiblity problems with the headgaskets?,or the divider plate behind the waterpump may not be there,gonna look into it,thanks