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Old 07-10-2011, 05:01 PM
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my car has been overheating a lot and i was just wondering if it is safe to run my ef without my thermostat?
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You can in the summer, not the smartest thing to do though
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ya i wanted to but im just gonna buy a new thermo
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Running without a thermostat results in very high temps as the coolant never has time to sit in the radiator and properly cool. I had a failsafe thermostat (fails open) recently go bad and had the overflow boiling and steaming when I got it home.
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