[DeTomaso] Engine cuts off and cooling

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Your engine may actually be overheating.

Where is your temperature sender?  Block or tank?  If in the swirl tank, 
if the fluid level gets below the sender, it will not read properly.  
Same thing in the block.  Check your coolant level.  As for dying, if 
the engine is overheated, it takes more power to keep it running, you 
may be boiling gas out the carb into the intake or out the air cleaner.  
I'd be concerned.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1973 Pantera L 5533
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Mike Murray wrote:
> So I finally get the car out of the shop after a long a/c conversion and having the bulkhead reduction kit put in I take the car out Sunday morning for some much needed stretching and all seems fine until after about an hour the temp starts going down from 180-190 to around 130-140 and from what I've read this is not a good operating temp for a V8. Could I have a problem with the fans staying on to long? Second thing that showed up was that in a hard brake and down shifting and turning hard left the engine died. I popped the clutch and it fired up. Can this be carburetor related and have anything to do with the engine running cold?   Mike Charleston, S.C.
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