[DeTomaso] Fw: Overheating

[Thomas Tornblom]

MikeLDrew at aol.com skrev:
> In a message dated 8/25/08 9 18 23, wdemelo at cogeco.ca writes:
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>> It's reaching the red mark at times ~260 deg
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> But, is it really getting that hot?   Or is it an illusion?
>
> Swap the sender, see what happens.
>
> BTW if you have IR fuel injection and you have measurably different temps on 
> one side of the engine, I would suspect some queertrons have got loose in your 
> system which are causing one bank to go way lean.   Could also be a fuel 
> delivery problem, with a duff fuel pump failing to properly pressurize the system? 
>   Are the cylinders that are going hot at the 'end of the trail' as far as 
> fuel delivery is concerned?   
>   

Lean on one bank may be due to problems with an oxygen sensor, if the 
engine is so equipped.

Wouldn't a head gasket installed backwards result in one head being 
hotter than the other?

> Just shooting in the dark here....
>
> Mike
>   

Thomas

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