Ok I have just finished running it for 25 minutes in the garage, paid close attention to the temp when it pushed fluid into the overflow tank. At 185 deg it filled fluid into the tank but less than half way, really weird why its doing that. The next thing it never got above about 185, but if you put your hand on the top part of the radiator it will fry your hand, and I have stainless water hoses, if you touch the top one same thing you cannot hold on to it. BUT I can reach down and grab the bottom hose and keep my hand on it with no problem seems less than half the temp of the top section... what the heck is going on. Right after I started it maybe less than three or four minutes I was just going to watch and see if the water was flowing after the thermostat opened up , it blew water everwhere like it was under severe pressure......... Im still going to check the timing, but I think if it sits and runs a good temp it should not be that....It is a vacuum advance, at the carb.timed at 10deg... the temp outside is at 70deg so I decided to go for another drive, temp climbed to 190, then in a few minutes it climbed to 205 so I decided to take er back before it got too hot... let it run in the garage with a big fan running in front of it to see if it would cool down, it would not, sucks I cannot even drive the car after all that work. It does have a 180 stat in it and there are a couple of holes drilled in it....
Last edited by mprat; 10-16-2013 at 08:47 PM.
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