over heating any suggestions
#11
06-17-2009, 06:22 PM
craby
I haven't flush it yet and it looks new. They tell me it looks like there isn't any water in the oil but not sure. It doesn't throw any smoke or steam out the tail pipe.
Last edited by agua81; 06-17-2009 at 06:28 PM.
#15
06-17-2009, 11:40 PM
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Location: Tokeland, Washington
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as far as i know on the lt1 there is no timing mark on the balancer. timing is controled by the opti and the ecm and there is no way to adjust except by tuning the prom/chip.
#18
06-18-2009, 02:13 AM
ok the car needs to be on to bleed it. leave the cap off and the car running and just kepp filling it up as it goes down. it works alot better if u park on a hill or a inclined drive pointing the nose up. the water should always be circulating no matter wut unless u have a thermo in it, since u dont u should see it moving all the time. the cap psi is like 15 or soewhere close to that from factory. the psi means for every 1psi it reduces the temp by 2 degrees. when the water pump fails the most common way to know is it will be leaking alot of water from it. but if the water is flowing then ur pump is good. ok now u say u wired the fan to be direct did u hook it up the right way? even if u reverse the wires itl still come but in "pushing mode". meaning the fan is going in the wrong direction. turn it on and stick ur hand behind it. itll either push or suck ur hand. check that and let me know.
#19
06-18-2009, 02:15 AM
actually water cools better than coolant it disperses heat better than coolant
#20
06-18-2009, 04:33 AM
straight water makes your temp alot higher... need to have a mix in there and bleed it. my 2000 V6 was doing the exact same thing... drove it from mississippi to texas and temp never went over half way up... stopped at a 7/11 for 5 minutes and the thing overheated in a bad way. also replaced the cap...
Last edited by niteman; 06-18-2009 at 04:35 AM. Reason: add