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Old 05-23-2017, 09:28 PM   #12
davepl
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Re: Could my AC be overheating my truck?

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Originally Posted by Stocker View Post
You won't get a debate from me, in fact you both said pretty much what I was thinking as I was reading the thread.

210* is starting to get warm but is nowhere near overheating in a sealed, pressurized system containing 50% coolant mix.
Yes, A/C will naturally add heat which will raise the coolant temp. I do not see a problem here.
I know it's semantics, but I define overheating as "producing more heat than the cooling system can shed", which is the problem. I wouldn't mind if it went to 215F and stayed there (which it seems to do with the AUX fan so far) but the unbounded climbing is the problem.

Back to semantics, I never said it boiled over, of course. I don't think 215F is a problem in and of itself either, if the thermostat were a 210. But it's a 180F, and it shouldn't be running that far "out of control" of the t-stat in my opinion.
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