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patrick4588
07-03-2008, 01:58 AM
95 turbo gsr running a civic half size. its a single core, but its twice as thick as stock. anyway, when i was going to bleed the system the other day, i took the cap off; started the car and waited. the fan came on and all, but i never saw any coolant get sucked in or move. it just sat there. shouldnt i see the coolant moving? oh and the highest i let it get was half way and i turned the heat on and it dropped back to 1/4 of the way.
patrick4588
07-06-2008, 01:42 AM
it started getting hot on the way home tonight, so right when i got home, i popped the hood and went out to check it out. the radiator and radiator cap was not even hot!! it was luke warm at best, but the upper radiator hose had a ton of pressure on it. thermo failing in closed position?
jew_boy
07-06-2008, 02:16 AM
yeah that is usually caused by a bad thermostat, but anyways im a friend of chris with the boosted LS. he's racing this weekend you goin to run him
patrick4588
07-06-2008, 05:00 PM
ill run him from a roll tonight if he wants. anyway, back to the cooling problem. i swapped the thermostat today and tried to bleed the coolant system, but no coolant ever gets pulled through the radiator.
Truegiant
07-06-2008, 05:44 PM
did you try leaving the thermostat out? I went through three thremostats and they were all bad. Left the thermo out and problem solved.. til the fourth one comes in!
patrick4588
07-07-2008, 01:34 AM
i had no overheating today with the new thermo in
Bruce Leroy
07-07-2008, 04:05 PM
did you try leaving the thermostat out? I went through three thremostats and they were all bad. Left the thermo out and problem solved.. til the fourth one comes in!

i always put mine in boiling water to make sure it works before installing it.
patrick4588
07-08-2008, 01:37 AM
^^^good idea. ill remember that for next time