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Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...



Your tach needs to be more around 900RPM.

Maybe you are running rich and rich equals more heat!

Thanks for the advise on the fans.

Mark V



On Jul 10, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:

> It was last summer that I hade Hervey tune up my car, he changed the
> plugs,
> cap and rotor
> and a few other things. Cost me about $400 or more for the stuff he
> did but
> to be honest
> I don't think the car really needed it because I couldn't feel a
> difference.
>
> One major issue I keep having is my high idle.
> It idles so high that I can curise down the road at 40PMH and never
> touch
> the gas.
> The tach hovers around 1500/2000 at idle.
> I have the adjustment all the way to the bottom, and the switch is
> working.....
>
> I took the car for a ride last night, it was a fairly cool night as
> compared
> to the 90+ weather
> we have been having, so with the AC off it seems to be OK, ran a
> c-hair over
> the first mark
> but was doing fine. SO I got cocky and tried the AC.
> IN about a 2 miles the needle was climbing.
> Something about that AC is causeing some major heat issues.
>
> The thing about Hervey's fans is, they are totally not nessesary
> unless you
> have damaged
> your OEM fans and shroud.
> In my situation I had a front end collision and my radiator was
> broken, the
> fans had fried up
> and the shroud exploded.
> I needed to replace it all....so Hervey's fans were a good solution.
> However, you would be better off to buy one of his larger alternators
> like a
> a Brute 150
> and then you would have all the power you need for the fans.
> The original fans have some serious blow, and you can hear them
> running.
> Hervey's new fans are more subtle and quite, you have to stick your
> head
> down
> by the front of the car to hear them running!
> Besides, if you go to most any hot-rod shop you can buy fans like these
> fairly cheap,
> strap or weld two of them together and strap them to the radiator
> yourself.
>
> I know that one of the things I am going to do in my BTTF conversion is
> install two small
> fans on the decklid to blow engine heat out the aluminum vents so they
> will
> have some
> function. I bet it would make a difference.
>
> - VB
>
>> From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
>> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:40:26 -0500
>>
>> Maybe it is not tuned up properly. I was told if it is tuned properly
>> you dont even need fans. HA HA HA.
>>
>> I am really leaning to the cooling fans you installed being the
>> problem. I hope this is not the issue though because i have been
>> thinking of getting that set you bought from John Hervey.
>>
>> The missing shroud around the radiator shouldn't make a difference too
>> much if it is missing, i dont have one on my car.
>>
>> Mark V
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
>>
>>> ...when one of your hoses explodes and blows antifreeze all over the
>>> back
>>> window and boiling green blasts all over the place.... hot enough for
>>> ya?
>>> This is what happened to me a few weekends ago.
>>> I decided to take it for a cruise in downtown Dallas on warm night.
>>> It stayed pretty normal on the 20 mile trip there with the AC on low.
>>> Once I got into the stop and go of cruising it started to get hot.
>>> I decided to take a side street and head for the highway to cool it
>>> down,
>>> the needle was rising, I turned off the AC and switch to the heater
>>> to
>>> pull
>>> the heat out
>>> but it was too late, the needle was rising and then BOOM, SPLASH!
>>> I sat in a parking lot with a blasted hose until 4am.
>>> I managed to get a friend to find an all night auto parts store and
>>> get me
>>> a peice of hose.
>>> My hoses were new, only a year old, I had put all of Heverys
>>> replacment
>>> hoses
>>> on but this one decided to split right up the middle!
>>>
>>> Something is going on.....
>>>
>>> - VB
>>>
>>>> From: "therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
>>>> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:38:22 -0000
>>>>
>>>> VB, what do you consider "overheating"? How far does the needle
>>>> creep
>>>> up, and where does it hover around when driving?
>>>>
>>>> -Robert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> It is one of Hervey's new larger metal radiators.
>>>>> - VB
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx>
>>>>>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
>>>>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How old is the radiator?  Maybe it is clogged?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am still having my over heating problem.
>>>>>>> I have topped off the coolant, and I have an air
>>>>>>> bleeder installed.
>>>>>>> I have wired the fans to be on full time, still the
>>>>>>> car over heats.
>>>>>>> Mostly with the AC on, you can get around OK with
>>>>>>> the AC off, but
>>>>>>> within minutes of turning the AC on the needle
>>>>>>> rises.
>>>>>>> The water appears to be flowing, and the fans are
>>>>>>> on....
>>>>>>> I must mention that I do have Hervey's new fans
>>>>>>> installed.
>>>>>>> They are very quite, you can barely hear them
>>>>>>> running.
>>>>>>> So, I am not sure if they are running as fast as
>>>>>>> they need to be
>>>>>>> because I have no frame of reference to compare them
>>>>>>> to because when
>>>>>>> I first got my car it was November, and then I
>>>>>>> wrecked it in July and
>>>>>>> replaced
>>>>>>> the OEM fans with Herveys, so I have only
>>>>>>> experienced his fans in the
>>>>>>> summer.
>>>>>>> The Texas summer is brutal....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't know why the hell the car isn't cooling, it
>>>>>>> was fine last summer.
>>>>>>> So the only things I can think of are that maybe the
>>>>>>> fans are for some
>>>>>>> reason
>>>>>>> not running at full speed, or the thermostat is
>>>>>>> sticking, or the water pump
>>>>>>> is not working
>>>>>>> correctly.... any suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone know what the cross reference of the
>>>>>>> thermostat is for Autozone?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Videobob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: "Travis Goodwin" <tgoodwin@xxxx>
>>>>>>>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>>> To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> Subject: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
>>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:16:02 -0400
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is a for real question.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My car seemed to be overheating at lunch today.
>>>>>>> Within 3 minutes, the
>>>>>>>> temp was almost 200 degrees. Despite the high temp,
>>>>>>> the fans didn't come
>>>>>>>> on. That says one thing to me: air pocket.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, I checked the coolant level real quick and it
>>>>>>> was indeed low. A stop
>>>>>>>> at Advance Auto to top it off and the temp leveled
>>>>>>> off. I drove it 20
>>>>>>>> miles home with the temp level. It got only as high
>>>>>>> at 160 or so by the
>>>>>>>> time I navigated all the traffic.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Do you agree that with an air pocket causing the
>>>>>>> thermostat to read too
>>>>>>>> high, it can seem as if the fans are not working
>>>>>>> correctly because the
>>>>>>>> coolant temp is not high enough to trigger the
>>>>>>> otterstat?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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