Thermostat!!!! I installed a new stat on a new engine and the exact same
thing happened on its first startup!!!!!!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Hoovers" <audela2@cox.net>
To: "Roadster Mailing List (E-mail)" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: Overheating problem
> After a few weeks away from Roadsters, we set to work undoing some of the
> PO's "wiring". The '64 1600 fired right up, and everything electrical
that
> worked before works now. A new problem arose, however. The engine heats
up
> very rapidly; within about 10 minutes it gets up to 220 & rising. It
didn't
> do this before we pulled apart the engine wiring. The radiator holds
> vacuum, and the system was recently flushed. We set the timing to 16deg
> BTDC (non-smog dist). We suspect the thermostat, but wanted to know other
> things to look at.
Now I check the opening of the stat using a meat thermometer before
installing one.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Charlotte & Leonard Hoover
> Phoenix, AZ
> '64 SPL310 1500
> '64 SPL310 1600
> '73 240Z
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