overheating?

[Chris Simmonds]

Jason,
I'm not sure what your quoting but if your
refering to the hose running from the rad to
the theromostat then here was my situation.

When my car was overheating the passanger side
of cooling system was HOT (overfill bubbling,
rad cap steaming, hoses hot ect) and also this
side of the rad was hot. On the driver side, it
was the opposite. While the car was at operating
temp. the driver side of the rad was cool to the
touch and the hose to the thermo was cool. I
concluded that there was a blockage. Prior, I
replaced the thermostat but my heating problem
continued. So after replacing the rad, the problem
went away..and temps across the cooling system
were about the same.

The one hot one cold thing is basically saying,
that one side (driver half) isn't even recieving
and therefore the hose is the same temp it was
throught the night, the passanger side is 911 hot
becuase it's stucked...not being circulated...not
being cooled.

Don't bite your tongue JGY, ask away. I can only
tell you from my experience.I believe your thinking from
a properly running cooling system standpoint...remember
I am refering to blockage in the rad.

Chris
bbdet

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jason Garrett Young" <jasongyoung@jacomanufacturing.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:28:46 -0400

>W. and Chris

>ok, I can't bite my tongue anymore.

>1.  What the heck do you guys mean by "one hot one cold"?
>Do you mean that the one on the pass. is warmer than the drivers side?  If
>so, think about that for a moment.  Then think about what a radiator
>actually does.

>2.  Do you 2 actually mean that the hose is cold?  If so, and I only assume
>that you are letting the car warm up before you are testing this, how in the
>heck is the hose "cold"?  I mean, it's in a warm engine bay.

>I am totally baffled by what you guys are implying/trying to say.

>> constantly going thru? (when the thermostat is in, coolant flow gets
>> blocked resulting in one of the hoses being hot and the other being cold)