Reply to "'74 Temperature Guage Problems"

charliemccallMember

On another forum, we talked about "how do you really know if your car is overheating" and "how hot is too hot for a Pantera". The consensus was that if you have no boiling, then your car is probably ok. If you hear "blub blub", then you probably have a problem.

The first thing I'd do is replace the radiator cap. It's cheap, and if the cap is faulty, you don't have a pressurized system and you'll have boiling at 212 instead of higher. What you want to avoid is boiling, because it means little pockets of steam in the system, which means localized VERY hot spots in the heads. Increasing the pressure in the system may be able to eliminate the boiling.

If you have a good pressure cap and you still have boiling, then your problem lies elsewhere. But, to oversimply the (long) discussion we had, "boiling is bad".

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Charlie McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985

7/28/031:21 AM

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