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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:53:45 -0400
- From: Ken Zuroski <kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: overheating
- Message-ID: <715391625.856.0@hector.mercury.acs.cmu.edu>
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- I have a Ford '86 F150 pickup. My wife was driving it today, and she did
- not notice that the temperature gauge was creeping up. As she pulled into
- our driveway (luckily then), the engine died and boiled over. I opened the
- hood and looked inside--no coolant left in the radiator; oil level looked
- good. I replaced the water/coolant mixture and cranked the engine again. It
- started with no problem and seems to be running well.
-
- I suspect a leak in the cooling system, and figure that the coolant simply
- ran dry. There is one other sympton that is confusing me, however. Now even
- with a full radiator, whenever the truck is idling and I turn on the heater,
- the air coming out of the heater remains cool until I rev the engine a bit--
- then it heats up momentarily and then gets cool again. This is not the same
- response that I remember before the engine boiled over. Then, the heater seemed
- to heat up quickly even at idle and gave good constant heat output.
-
- Is this related, and, if so, what does it mean? How can I check for damage
- to the engine due to overheating?
-
- Thanks--
-
- ken
-
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- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Ken Zuroski
- Department of English
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
- kz08@cmu.edu
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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