sounds to me like the block needs to be flushed and the radiator needs to be
rodded.
On 7/7/07, James Shope <healeymanjim@hansencc.net> wrote:
>
> drove my friends tricarb to my house yesterday when temp here in vegas was
> 115
> or so. temp stayed below 212 as long as i was in town, but when cruising
> on
> freeway temp went right on up to about 220plus. it did not boil over when
> shut off as i expected even though gauge went up to over 230. car has a
> six
> blade rigid fan. would the fan spinning at high rpm stop airflow at
> higher
> speeds? car has air deflector but no idea of radiator age, condition of
> block
> or accuracy of guage. any ideas? healeymanjim
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