Officially performed her first duty as my pickup truck today, hauled some 3" drain pipe to the dump! ok its not really that exciting... but I'm happy
Time to troubleshoot the cooling situation. It runs cool, very cool while driving, but heats up way to fast at a stop. Around town and on the freeway it'll run between 140-170* and as soon as you stop for traffic, or in today's case waiting in line at the dump scales, it shoots right up. today it jumped from 146 to 202 in about 4 minutes of idling...
It has a new Champion aluminum radiator and a stock clutchless fan. No shroud. Im wondering if
A: Is the Tstat is operating properly? why is it running so cool around town?
B: Is the fan not sufficient? (kinda obvious if it jumps that high in such a short period of time)
Fix for the fan could be a shroud or electric fan setup. Stock shroud will not work on the big aftermarket radiator tho...
That, along with trying to remove some of the nasty black spray paint from the grill, and still troubleshooting the carb, are my projects for the day.