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Originally Posted by kyral
Anything under 215 is okay. if youre running a stock radiator upgrading might help. a bigger fan wont help if your overheating while driving (that's not what its for)
how clean is your coolant? you could try pulling the radiator and flushing it backwards and forwards with water to clean it out. (should be able to do this with the block as well just not as thoroughly) I know my stock KA rad had tons of nasty shit in it
your water pump might be going as well
my SR ran at a consistent 160 with an aluminum rad and no thermostat. it would creep up only when stopped and would cool back down while driving
what your saying makes me think a coolant passage is blocked, water pump is failing or your headgasket is leaking but you should be seeing odd coolant issues if the HG was bad
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the coolant was fairly clean, didn't notice any oil in the coolant and i checked the dipstick super clean oil so HG isn't what i suspect although when i was bleeding the coolant after putting a new thermostat in it did get real hot once and i shut it off immediately. I flushed out the coolant last night and put all distilled water with a bottle of water wetter and that seemed to help a lot. I let the car warm up last night, and the temp gauge hung around 180F forever which is a good thing. Also I didn't turn the fan on at all so the water wetter had to have made a big difference.