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Re: Cooling System Mystery - please help

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Subject: Re: Cooling System Mystery - please help
From: "Terry Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:01:01 -0500
> It seems suggestive to me that it worked reasonably well without the 
> thermostat.
> Since you say you've tested the thermostat, I wonder if the seal on the 
> water
> pump is bad and allowing air to be sucked in when the engine is cool (and 
> thus
> the coolant is not under pressure).  I've never seen this on a Triumph, 
> but I
> have on other cars and the symptoms are similar.
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Quick question, everyone.

If the temperature was fine without the thermostat, but isn't with it, don't 
all the other variables remain equal?

Is there any condition in which a thermostat can test good in a kettle, but 
malfunction installed?

Terry Smith
'59 TR3A  TS 58667 (Body still off....)
New Hampshire 




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