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Old 05-08-2002, 12:43 PM
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Thumbs up New water pump is IN!

Fired it up and nothing flew out of the engine compartment....that's a good sign, right?

Now...just need to run the Prestone system cleaner thru and fill it up with the new Prestone 5yr/150Kmi. coolant.

Will prolly pick-up another bottle of water-wetter to dump in too.

man....after I got those new bolts and started this morning...it only took me about an hour to get everything put back together.
Thanks for the help and bearing with me, everyone who helped!

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Old 05-08-2002, 01:18 PM
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Good job!!!
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Old 05-08-2002, 02:42 PM
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What order is the rest of the cooling system in? I'd go check the rest of the components while I was in there. Especially the aux coolant pump and the radiator. I had to have those replaced recently.
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Old 05-08-2002, 03:42 PM
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No idea how or where to check those other components.

On another note. As I was performing my backyard coolant flush procedure, I had the top radiator hose disconnected from the radiator.

I let the engine reach full operating temp...which was about 82C according to the temp guage.

At this point, coolant was flowing out of the top radiator hose at about the same rate as if you were pouring drink out of a soda can.....I was replenishing the coolant with hose water while doing this.

I've never actually seen the coolant flow on any other car so I have no basis for comparison. Does this flow rate sound right?
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ck42,

Congratulations! Glad to hear things are back together and working well.

The flow rate is pretty much normal. You have a relatively light heat load at idle and the thermostat is mixing the water coming from the hot engine with the water coming from the cooler radiator to maintain a fixed temperature. Since the flow through the radiator is proportional to the heat load, you are not seeing much flow under the conditions you observed. If you were at full load with the engine at high rpm, the flow rate would be substantially higher. The pump output increases dramatically with rpm and the thermostat will recirculate less hot water and draw in more cooled water, both of which will make the flow through the hose you were observing much higher.

Hope this helps, but it sounds like your engine is doing fine. Is the temp stable at around 80 degrees C? If so, things are fine. Good Luck, Jim
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Old 05-09-2002, 12:56 AM
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Thanks for the confirmation Jim. I hadn't thought about the fresh cool water having an effect...

Took it out for a spin down the street and it looks like it's running at its *normal* 90C. Don't know how this temp is compared to others but for the short time I've had the car, 90C is where it pretty stays.
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ck42,

That sounds within the range people report as normal for the operating temperature. Mine sticks at about a needle width or two above 80 degrees C. Jim
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Old 05-09-2002, 01:19 AM
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That needle's width above 80C is about exactly where mine was sitting when idling during my coolant fill tests. Never went higher.

Only after taking it out for a spin did the temp go up to 90C.

hope this is normal.

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