Also: open the heater valve when you stop this dumps some cold coolant into the system as you idle
the van. (only works in summer :-)  M

>  I now usually sit in the van with the engine running if
> the fan kicks in while I am parking or driving through a parking lot, driving up to my house
> (like about 15 minutes ago), so that the reduced temperature coolant gets back to the engine and
> cools it off.  It doesn't take very long.  With the pump running, the reduced temperature
> coolant doesn't cut the fan off until coolant has circulated and cooled the whole system.

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