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Old 11-26-2007, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Blablabloom View Post
I have also discovered that the thermostat has been removed. The car takes forever to warm up and the temp guage barely reaches 80 degrees after driving for a while.
Without a properly operating thermostat your car would be running cold most of the time. That will lead to excessive carbon buildup and all kinds of weird operation. My 75 had the thermostat gutted by some well-intentioned nitwit. After replacing it and driving the crap out of the car for a couple of weeks (long freeway drives at speeds the police would be unhappy with) most of the strangeness disappeared. After I took out the aux air valve and cleaned it, the rest of it cleared up.
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