Drilling thermostat

[Swifty1638]

Yes, go drink more jello shots.

On topic, honestly, start with a coolant system pressure check. It could be as little as a bad clamp on a TB heater hose. If you smell coolant, it's leaking from somewhere. Pressurize to 15 psi, and check for the leak. Does the waterpump have any shaft-play when you spin it with your hand? slide in and out at all?

-A. Swift

[2003eclipse]

New coolant in the car. Approximately a 85/15 water/coolant mixture, with a whole bottle of Water Wetter.


If i'm not mistaken, to much coolant isn't always better. Thats why it comes in premixed jugs as 50/50 not 70/30 or 85/15 drain some coolant let the neighbors cats drink it and add some water.

[b00stcreep21]

Water actually cools much better than anti-freeze. Anti-freeze is basically to keep the coolant in your block from feezing durring the winter anc cracking your block and sheit. Pressure test the system, and go from there. and yes, jello shots FTMFT :)

[joem]

Water actually cools much better than anti-freeze. Anti-freeze is basically to keep the coolant in your block from feezing durring the winter anc cracking your block and sheit. Pressure test the system, and go from there. and yes, jello shots FTMFT :)

People need to post true. Anti-freeze lubes the water pump stops rust and corrosion in the cooling system rises to boiling point and no freezing in the winter. To much anti freeze in the system is bad lowers the boiling point and will gel in the winter. So unless you know what your talking about dont post.

[Enes]

if you take tstat out the water will move too fast and won't have time to absorb the heat... or cool off..

[A//// Guy]

^^It wont move too fast.. it just will be allowed to flow through the radiator all the time versus opening and letting some through to cool.. controlled by the tstats temp rating.

I ran straight distilled water with water wetter the last summer I had my gsx, along a 180 thermostat. It did run about 10 degrees cooler, but my fans were also too small. I tried taking the tstat out alltogether but that just delays temps getting up to normal.. they eventually get up there anyway. It just takes the car longer to warm up.

[b00stcreep21]

People need to post true. Anti-freeze lubes the water pump stops rust and corrosion in the cooling system rises to boiling point and no freezing in the winter. To much anti freeze in the system is bad lowers the boiling point and will gel in the winter. So unless you know what your talking about dont post.


What I said was true, I just didn't bother to list off everything you did. And the truth is, water DOES act as a better coolant than antifreeze, but has a lower boiling point than antifreeze (which is one of many reasons you run a mix). This agrument is pointless anyways. Let us know how everything turns out when you get your fan fixed B

[FattyBoomBatty]

Run some clothes dryer ducting from the front around the I/C. build a fan shroud or semi-fan shroud to protect from the exhaust bits.

[x-pride]

I say get rid of your ac condesor! J/K I know you want to keep your AC.

[Halon]

HAHA wow that was fun to read! I'll go back and address everyone's comments.

Swifty - ok so you retorque them without loosening them, thanks! Is that what everyone else does as well? Just want to be sure. And about pressure testing the system, that is a good idea, and I have been wanting to do that, and searching all the auto parts stores to see if anyone has one for rent, but nobody does. And they are over $100 to just buy, and I don't want to do that. Do you or does anyone know where I could find one to use? Also you said something about figuring out where all the coolant is going, but like I said, it doesn't seem like coolant is going anywhere. After that trip I waited for the car to cool down, and I popped the rad cap. It looked a little low, but all I added was like a splash, hardly anything, maybe like 3 tablespoons. That splash was probably just in the overflow bottle because the overflow looked just a little bit more full then it did in the beginning. So I don't think I'm losing coolant really, or just so small of an amount that it's not even noticable really. About the water pump, I'm pretty sure they put a new one in when they put the motor together. I haven't checked for shaft play on it, i suppose I could just take that front pipe off and just reach in there to see how it all feels.

2003eclipse - I think you are reading what I said backwards. I have 85 WATER and 15 ANIT-FREEZE. Water cools better, but I wanted some antifreeze in there because it does raises the boiling point, and it also lubricates and protects everything a little bit too. So I didn't want to go straight water, I wanted a little antifreeze in there still.

LB - Fan was fixed before the trip to Minnetonka/Plymouth/Blaine. Still running hot.

CHromepuff - I have been looking into ways to get more airflow to the radiator. Possibly knockin some holes in the bumper. Just seeing what all I can do. I don't have a good way to route any kind of like dryer ducting though, there's not much room really. One thing I'm also looking at is putting some kinda vent in the hood, like what evo's have, to allow that hot air in between the manifold and radiator to escape

x-pride - that is something I did fail to mention. The car still has A/C, so I have a nice huge condesor in front of my radiator still. It's not really clogged or anything. But I really want to keep A/C in this car as it is still functional, and comes in handy on those really hot days! But as a last resort, I will have to consider removing it.

Also I will add that when I added the new coolant, I let the car idle for around 15 minutes with the cap off, and the car parked on an incline, to "burp" any bubbles out that there might be.

So... anyone know where I can get a coolant system pressure tester thingamajig?