My radiator fan was broke from when I hit a deer it got wedged in the front mountand wouldn't turn There must have been some sort of short caused by that because since that incident it never turn on at all. The temperature gauge was not reading the correct temperature apparently because it read just under the halfway line when the car was boiling hot. Yesterday afternoon while driving home (98 deg) the car overheated cut off and did not want to start. The gauge the whole wile was reading just under halfway and then all of a sudden bolted past redline.

When i got home it died in the driveway and would not start again. I put it in the garage still smoking for about 15 minutes! (not the radiator, between the head and block) I'll try to pull the motor this weekend to see what is damaged. Time to rebuild. Anybody with a Free H22 the want to give to me?

 

ouch, that sux. Hopefully the damage is not too bad...

 

OUCH. That sux, man. It was freaking HOT yesterday too.

I say it is time for a G23 VTEC!!

 

So does this mean our temp gauge is full of bullshit and is there just for looks?

 

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Most stock temp gages have a large dead band. For example anything from 135F to 235F will give the same reading on the gage. This is a "normal" reading. Anything over 235 will make the needle quickly go up, and anything less than 135 will make it quickly go down.

They do this because if some people see the needle go up or down at all they think something is wrong. Thus, Honda and most other car engineers are telling us that we are too stupid to know that fluctuation in the water temp is normaly and they make the gage stay right on "normal" and only go up or down when it WAY out of range.

 

I can't believe no one is willing to give up a H22 longblock, for my greater good. Just kidding. I wish I could have found this problem before it got this bad. I havn't pulled the motor yet but I plan to soon.

 

do you want my almost complete h23?

 

So.... I'm scared to ask what you mean by almost complete.