andyvaughan
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Hello everyone,
I was hoping someone might be able to help me. Fairly new to the truck I've got and as such I've been through the Workshop manual wot I downloaded.
I recently took my truck up Newmarket way on an offroad course. Got it caked in mud.
Since I did that, the temperature gauge in the cab has been reading on the high side. When turned on it rises up slowly to half way and sits there for a bit. The longer the journey, the higher this slowly creeps. A 20 minute journey in town traffic would leave it 3/4 of the way up towards the red.
Motorway driving in excess of 60 also results in a reasonably high gauge.
I've hosed through the rad and the fins look good. You can see all the way through to the leccy fan for 99% of it.
There are no leaks as far as I can work out from the cooling system.
I've opened up the thermostat housing (shortly after shearing off a bolt, well done.) There is no thermostat in there.
I've been told this bodge is sometimes done to cope with overheating (now pretty ironic).
Firstly,
Would the absence of the thermostat result in the symptoms above?
Secondly, what the hell. If I shove a new thermostat in there, might it resolve the overheating?
Would appreciate any pointers, advice, etc.
Cheers all,
Andy
I was hoping someone might be able to help me. Fairly new to the truck I've got and as such I've been through the Workshop manual wot I downloaded.
I recently took my truck up Newmarket way on an offroad course. Got it caked in mud.
Since I did that, the temperature gauge in the cab has been reading on the high side. When turned on it rises up slowly to half way and sits there for a bit. The longer the journey, the higher this slowly creeps. A 20 minute journey in town traffic would leave it 3/4 of the way up towards the red.
Motorway driving in excess of 60 also results in a reasonably high gauge.
I've hosed through the rad and the fins look good. You can see all the way through to the leccy fan for 99% of it.
There are no leaks as far as I can work out from the cooling system.
I've opened up the thermostat housing (shortly after shearing off a bolt, well done.) There is no thermostat in there.
I've been told this bodge is sometimes done to cope with overheating (now pretty ironic).
Firstly,
Would the absence of the thermostat result in the symptoms above?
Secondly, what the hell. If I shove a new thermostat in there, might it resolve the overheating?
Would appreciate any pointers, advice, etc.
Cheers all,
Andy