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Originally Posted by jdm2191
So can the Temp guage be bad & basically be lieing to me about the tempeture but really be at regular operating tempature?
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Rarely...but your car is overheating. If your friends computer said the temp readout showed 240F...it's overheating.
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Originally Posted by jdm2191
... clutch fan is blowing cold air, not hot air? It's not showing signs of overheating?
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It should be blowing hot air...pulling air through the radiator, the air should pick up the heat out of the cooling system. But that's hardly a reliable way to determine if it's overheating.
You probably need to bleed the cooling system. There is air trapped behind the thermostat, so it never opens. So the car does fine until the temp starts rising, then overheats very quickly because there's no coolant circulating.
Don't continue to drive it.
I'll bet the lower radiator hose never gets warm...that means coolant is not circulating.
Search on here for how to bleed a KA...you'll find a lot of good info.
- Brian