And I should add that opening the front heater core valve helped bring down
the coolant temp. Likely an indicator of a suspect rad. I see a coolant
flush + rad replacement sooner than later. Heck. Maybe now. As anticipated,
snapped a bolt on thermostat housing. "Easy Out" stuck in remainder. Dang.

Neil.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> >
> > The cooling system has quirks and way too many hoses, but it seems
> > massively overbuilt.  The radiator (to me) seems sized for a much
> > larger engine than it is actually cooling.
>
> My '91 camper with stock 2.1 engine overheated regularly both on grades
> and in town until I replaced the radiator.  I had done all sorts of tweaks
> to the cooling system, some of which probably were not needed.  Replaced
> the radiator, overheating problem gone.
>
> McNeely
>

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Neil n

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