I started my car for the first time since last September and major surgery
on a variety of parts of the car over the winter. Part of the work I did
involved disconnecting the temperature sending unit. When I put everything
back together, I forgot to reconnect it. As a result, the temp gauge never
showed that the car was warming up. Shouldn't have been a big deal but, as
it turns out, there's something amiss with the cooling system too. I
suspect its something as simple as the thermostat being stuck. Anyway, I
was puttering around in the garage, glancing at the car every once in a
while waiting for it to warm up when I noticed steam coming from the
radiator. Stupid of me to not realize something was wrong when the temp
gauge showed no reading after 10 minutes. Anyway, I immediately shut the
car off when I saw steam. Then I proceeded to reconnect the temp sending
unit and check the gauge. It was pegged all the way to the right past Hot.
My fear is that I've damaged the engine. I know some cars, particularly
more modern cars, are very unforgiving about being overheated. I don't
really know how tolerant a TR6 engine is of this sort of thing. Any
opinions? What are the chances that I seriously screwed something up? Any
way to check?
Thanks
Phil Beckman
73 TR6
Libertyville, IL
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