If you want to find out whether (and where) your radiator is gummed up, feel
the core when the engine is warm. Simply place the palm of your hand over
the radiator core, being extremely careful with hot spots. Where the
radiator is plugged up, the radiator will feel cool. As little or nothing
is flowing through the core at that spot, it will not be hot. The spots
that are not clogged, however, will be quite a bit hotter than normal as the
coolant is not being cooled as well as it should.
Bill
---- Original Message -----
From: Jim Wilson <jwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 10:39 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] overheating
> I also have had this problem in the past and one solution was to
> remove the thermostat, that made the problem worse. I talk to and
> old Mopar man here and his words were if you remove the thermostat
> then know out the center of it (the stat) and put the rest back in
> because some of the engines will heat worse with no stat than a
> partially operating one. Seem if the water is not restricted on
> some engines it flows through the radiator so fast it can't give
> it heat up to the air.
> Jim
>
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