She's programmed and gets a little warm sometimes which led to bulging radiators. I had one pop scalding my arm... Since the alloy rad, new hoses and so on. She's cooler than Ice-cream, coffee ice-creamOh dear! How did you manage that?
That is one thing I’m worried about, I haven’t really gotten to the root of the fat hoses. Would be bummed to replace the cooling system to find a cracked head or similar.
And on the GEMS.
Is programmed an English word for tuned?She's programmed and gets a little warm sometimes which led to bulging radiators. I had one pop scalding my arm... Since the alloy rad, new hoses and so on. She's cooler than Ice-cream, coffee ice-cream
Don't forget, at highway speeds you have a lot of air passing through the rad so the fan is doing very little. When coming to a standstill all that heat generated while driving still has to be dealt with, that's when the fan will come into play to replicate the air passing through the rad needed to bring the coolant temp down. Normally when cold the fan and before the engine is started the fan will be stiff. As the engine starts to spin the fan will roar for a short while and will become loose on its clutch. Then when the engine gets hot enough the fan clutch will grip and the fan becomes more and more effective to pass heat through the rad.
Don't forget, at highway speeds you have a lot of air passing through the rad so the fan is doing very little. When coming to a standstill all that heat generated while driving still has to be dealt with, that's when the fan will come into play to replicate the air passing through the rad needed to bring the coolant temp down. Normally when cold the fan and before the engine is started the fan will be stiff. As the engine starts to spin the fan will roar for a short while and will become loose on its clutch. Then when the engine gets hot enough the fan clutch will grip and the fan becomes more and more effective to pass heat through the rad.
A none sealing coolant system I. E the cap or tank in your case will allow the coolant to boil and spew like a fountain.
Does look like a wear mark from contact while turning, but if every blade is the same it won't affect the balance. As Kermit says, maybe someone pushed it against the back of the rad with the engine running?
Yeah it’s a strange one. The rad doesn’t look munted though, unless it was hitting the old rad. I couldn’t see it hitting anything when it was running, probably would have made an awful noise that would have been hard to miss.
Not that I could tell.
Ah ok. I thought I read a post somewhere about cranking hot air assists in burping coolant.
A lot of folks do say this but i can't see any basis for it. I've never needed to.
The basis is that in days of yore all heaters had a valve wot woz operated by a solid push pull cable wot woz moved by the heater knob or slide...
