Tim Groth
SCCoA Member
Well first let me start by saying I'm not new to the thunderbird world, and I know the symptoms of bad HG's on 3.8s...shoot my base model blew em so I know what to look for. So with that in mind please help me figure this out.
I to seem to be having heating problems which are very intermittion and tonight has been the only night where I've had no heat what so ever after a period of driving. My car runs great and only twice has my car stalled out at a light ( for what reasons I don't know. maybe you can help, I'm leaning towards my plugs). Anyways tonight was one of those times it stalled out and well after about 5 cranks I was on my way like nothing happened. I had low gas (nothing to bring up a light on my VMM) so I went and filled up. (it was near E both times this happened) So I continue home and I notice my guage is on M so I kept an eye on it to make sure it didn't climb, praying to god also. So I'm on the interstate now and it drops to N and I'm thinking great nothing to worry about. I'd say on the way home my guage went from the C all the way up to O/R range 5 times. Most of the time it was on N tho. Still no continuous heat but it was hot when on N, anything eles was cold. Get home check the exhaust and just smoke from the cold weather nothing to worry about even smelt it to make sure it wasn't somewhat sweet, looked under the hood and I see smoke. Although I have a bad hose that goes from my Resovior to the top of my radiatior and that's where it was leaking and causing the smoke. So nothing that makes me want to lose sleep. Did open the resovior and I noticed steam comming out from it and I heard bubbling, which does scare me.
I've been told on the TCCoA it could be air in my system, but I haven't checked. Does this seem like a valid point? Or something that's not typical for an SC.
Cold it be a heater core about to go? I'm not that mech. inclined so I'm lost.
Also I drove my car 4 hours to make the Mid Atlantic Chapter meet yesterday and had ZERO problems at all! Car ran like a champ, perfect heat, You name it! Was a great trip.
I'm just totally confused, tomorrow I paln on driving the "SC Mock" (my 90 V6) just incase, and wait to see what you guys think.
I'm in the same boat as RedBirdSC, and all the other younger members. I'm 18 and well I'm getting reemed on Gas how it is and besides the heat, my rack an pinion have started to go too.
Please help me out, perhaps it is Head Gasket related but so far I have nothing that makes me lean towards it.
Thanks for reading all of this post.
-Tim
I to seem to be having heating problems which are very intermittion and tonight has been the only night where I've had no heat what so ever after a period of driving. My car runs great and only twice has my car stalled out at a light ( for what reasons I don't know. maybe you can help, I'm leaning towards my plugs). Anyways tonight was one of those times it stalled out and well after about 5 cranks I was on my way like nothing happened. I had low gas (nothing to bring up a light on my VMM) so I went and filled up. (it was near E both times this happened) So I continue home and I notice my guage is on M so I kept an eye on it to make sure it didn't climb, praying to god also. So I'm on the interstate now and it drops to N and I'm thinking great nothing to worry about. I'd say on the way home my guage went from the C all the way up to O/R range 5 times. Most of the time it was on N tho. Still no continuous heat but it was hot when on N, anything eles was cold. Get home check the exhaust and just smoke from the cold weather nothing to worry about even smelt it to make sure it wasn't somewhat sweet, looked under the hood and I see smoke. Although I have a bad hose that goes from my Resovior to the top of my radiatior and that's where it was leaking and causing the smoke. So nothing that makes me want to lose sleep. Did open the resovior and I noticed steam comming out from it and I heard bubbling, which does scare me.
I've been told on the TCCoA it could be air in my system, but I haven't checked. Does this seem like a valid point? Or something that's not typical for an SC.
Cold it be a heater core about to go? I'm not that mech. inclined so I'm lost.
Also I drove my car 4 hours to make the Mid Atlantic Chapter meet yesterday and had ZERO problems at all! Car ran like a champ, perfect heat, You name it! Was a great trip.
I'm just totally confused, tomorrow I paln on driving the "SC Mock" (my 90 V6) just incase, and wait to see what you guys think.
I'm in the same boat as RedBirdSC, and all the other younger members. I'm 18 and well I'm getting reemed on Gas how it is and besides the heat, my rack an pinion have started to go too.
Please help me out, perhaps it is Head Gasket related but so far I have nothing that makes me lean towards it.
Thanks for reading all of this post.
-Tim
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