My car overheated last night for the first time and it was kinda weird. I went out for a drive just because it was nice outside and I had to go down the street to get some crack ( ) . The car ran fine, heated up to 200 then dropped to 180 and stayed there. Then all of a sudden the temp just started to rise and it was getting close to 260* just as I pulled into the driveway. The fans were on and the radiatior is full. Brand new water pump too. What made it just spike up all of a sudden like that?

 

TTT.

anyone?

 

perhaps its the crack that did it?



i donno... why dont you see if something broke or happened as you pulled in? is it still overheating?

 

maybee broken guage, t stat , fan switch problems, or probably a cracked head i think

 

It only seems to do it if I drive the car 'hard'. If I get into the throttle any more than Grandma would it seems to get the temp up. Maybe a fuel mixture problem?

 

Check your timing, how the car running. If the timing is off then you're getting too much timing at WOT and that can cause sudden overheating.

Or a bad head gasket...

 

wait wait wait...

are you saying that if you blip the thottle the temp goes skyhigh and it dropps after you stop messing with the thottle??



LOL... its somthing with the gauge or sender if thats the case.... the car isnt changing temps that quick...

 

It's not if I blip the throttle. It's if I drive it hard, put more load on it for a few minutes of so, the temp slowly rises. Once I park the car and let it idle it slowly drops to normal.

 

Tony,

Check out the timing, it makes a world of difference.

BTW, sorry I didn't make it out last weekend, I am just getting back from vacation tonight. (BFE, upstate NY)