air bubble?
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air bubble?
Hey all, I Installed a new radiator, water pump and oem (gray) 180 thermostat. The engine was dead cold when I bled her. ( Bled just fine had coolant come out at the "T".) I did not raise the tank, as I've bled her before with no issues. So I the started truck and I was underneath finishing up filling the transmission as well. Truck was at idle for like maybe 5 minutes or so when i noticed my ultra gauge climbing at 208 to 212 when I cut her off. I "laser temp" checked cooling hoses. The bottom hose was cold, radiator was fairly cold all other hoses plus coolant tank were hot. Even though I had a "successful Bleed" ( or did I ? ) Could there have been a big air pocket(s) still trapped inside? Tomorrow I am going to jack up the front end of the truck and bleed again and see if that does the trick. The reason I replaced all that stuff in the first place was my thermostat was bad and I had a new radiator and water pump on my shelf. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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#4
In my personal experience, I can never get all the air out of the system properly unless I run the heater for a minute and give the engine a couple revs to circulate the fluid. I have had hoses just come loose on the trail and that's pretty much been the only way I can ever get the Cooling system to work correctly.
#5
Well I feel pretty darn stupuid right now. Checked the belt this morning, all good. Bled the system by the book, all good. I checked the thermostat again, mind you I checked it last night and for some reason I just now realized I had the two top hose's in the wrong place. So I'm going to let her cool down, Fix the hose issue, re bleed and hopefully I will have slayed the gremlins.
#8
Absolutely!!! And bmeier just think you got your 1 dumb mistake for 2017 out of the way early..... so now it's all good on ya!
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