Bad leads to good!

[1nativetexan]

Well after a late night loop around the city(43 miles), I thought I had the temp woes fixed till about 4 blocks from the house I blew the TB bypass hose, temp was about 280 when I pulled in the drive. So I decide to do the TB bypass, a MAF descreening, and a TB Cleaning. put it all toghther and the temp soared to 245 in about 3 minutes, shut down and let cool again. this time changed the thermostat again(changed last week) and added aporx. 2 gals of liquid to the block. bumped the RPM's to about 2k and added another half gal. to the radiator, and YEEEHAWWW it worked even better than ever before. Idled tfor 15 minutes and never got above 166. gettin cleaned up fo another 22 minute 43 mile loop. Will let ya know!

[Ken]

Yeah, you gotta keep the revs up when filling the radiator of these things. Glad to hear all is going well.

[1nativetexan]

Well I guess I had an air pocket in the engine all along contributing to the overheating problem. I never really thought about it but in a truck or most all other cars the radiator is above the engine block so the fluid can seek it's own path to the block, not so in the vet. After a 100 or so mmiles and sitting in traffic it hasn't gotten above 202 degrees. BTW my fans are wired to run all the time, might not be good but seems to work. thanks for all the help everyone!