Hey its me again and yes my car is a pice of shit!!! umm ive had my car for about 2 mounths now and i havet had time to fix much but i finally have the money to now and i wanted to fix my thermostat.so i opend it up to look at and i noticed there wasnt one there i suppose from the headgasket job the person did before me never put one back in. so i went to kragen and bought a 180 temp thermo and a seal i put them in flushed my raidiator and no results my temp gauge dosent move what could it be??


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check and see if your temp. sensor is plugged in it is under your distributer in the block just under the head. if it is unplug it, take the wire and ground it it should make your temp. gauge peg out with the ign. on if it dosen't your gauge is bad.

 

and if after it still stays hot and dosent drop down to regular tempature?what then? im pretty sure my car dosent overheat.....im getting tire of this car!!!
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give me a general picture of what the car is doing through the whole driving range. how long does it take to get hot? I just had problems with mine getting too hot right after i rebuilt it come to find out i had an air pocket in the block and it wouldn't let water in i had to what i call burp the system to get the air out. let me know exackly what is happening and maybe i can help.

 

Yea it just stays pinned out at hot all the time and never moves it dosent show cold when i start it in the morning or any thing like that it just reads hot all the time even when i turn the car off the gauge dosent move... think it might be a broken gauge? im not sure.

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Ok first check if your comp. is throwing you a code by pulling up the carpet on the passinger side floor turn the ignition on and look to see if your getting 6 flashes through the window if you are check your fuse it will be in the fuse block under the steering column, I think it is the second fuse from the left I think on the top row. If that is good then start your car take the radiator cap off and see if the coolant in you car is moving if it is then your water pump is working. If you are getting 6 flashes then chances are your sensor is bad since you say it stays pegged all the time, I would think that if the gauge itself is bad then it would never move from cold. I would change the sensor first then if that dosen't work then the gauge, the sensor is about half the price............................................. ..let me know how it goes.

 

Hi!
Would you please explain how you "burp the system"? I think I did it accidentally when my 86 was over-heating and I released steam through the top bleeder valve (suddenly sensors seemed to work again and the car ran more smoothly!). I'm having problems getting it to idle at all now after a rebuild. I suspect some sensors (vacuum or temp) may be at fault and perhaps the water is not circulating to them. The fan comes on inappropriately, too (like upon start-up, before it's even begun to warm-up).

Thanks for any suggestions!
Walt