Ok, I used to overheat at idle. I swapped in a fluidyne radiator, oem thermostat and thermoswitch and cometic headgasket. This fixed the idle overheating issues.

BUT.............

Now I am having overheating problems when driving The needle seems to jump real high really fast, then right when i turn the heater on full blast, it drops a tiny bit and then rises back up for a while.

After driving like this for 10 minutes on the highway, i finally got home, idled and the temperatre didnt move Could it possibly be a bad temp gauge? How would I check that and do those go bad often?

I checked the coolant and notcied a tiny bit of flaky white stuff sitting at the top of the radiator. What is it? junk from the new radiator?


[Modified by intekragsr, 11:19 PM 3/26/2003]

 

update, i just found a bunch of crusty white mushy crap under my new radiator cap..........wtf is this?

 

what kind of "cosmetic" headgasket did you purchase???, the answer may lay in that right there....

my bad, i thought you said "cosmetic head gasket",


[Modified by cream, 11:48 PM 3/26/2003]

 

what kind of "cosmetic" headgasket did you purchase???, the answer may lay in that right there....

 

i have a .043 cometic headgakset

just did compression check:

1 - 190
2 - 181
3 - 190
4 - 195


[Modified by intekragsr, 12:00 AM 3/27/2003]

 

please help

 

what mix of coolant are you running? are your head studs torqued down correctly?


^ problems i encountered

 

haha how did this thread come back alive?

This problem was on my old motor.

Now I have a new motor, making different problems.

Let it die.....