I purchased a sc back in march. Ever since I bought it its been running really hot. I changed out the 197 thermostat with a 180 thermo. and flushed the coolant. It helped but minimally at best, still overheated. Today, since I didn't have work I decided I was going to fix the overheating problem once and for all. I was determined even if I had to go as far as pulling the heads and checking them for cracks!!! I removed the hose from the water pump to the thermostat housing and started the car. To my surprise the water was barely flowing. I then removed the hose from the thermostat housing and although it flowed alot better it still wasn't flowing like it should. I then removed my lower radiator hose and took the metail coil out of it. Filled the radiator back up and started engine and voila! Water was flowing at the rate of niagara falls. I inspected the inside of the thermo to water pump hose and it was pretty dirty. I changed that out as well with a new hose and now my temperature has been stuck at O in norm on the temp gauge. I've been driving the car around all day and haven't had any issues. Even idling in traffic the temp gauge does not move.
so, if any of you are having similiar problems, inspect those hoses first. Its not a bad idea to remove those coils in the radiator hoses. It helped me out tremendously maybe some one some where will benefit from this write up.
-enjoy
so, if any of you are having similiar problems, inspect those hoses first. Its not a bad idea to remove those coils in the radiator hoses. It helped me out tremendously maybe some one some where will benefit from this write up.
-enjoy