Car getting real hot....
Here is good trick that I learned from @halifaxhops to get all of the air out of your cooling system.
Can drill a small 1/8" hole in your thermostat to let the air bleed out of the cooling system. If you have remaining air pockets in your cooling system you are going to have cooling problem.
The latest 360 build here used the drilled the thermostat, poured in 4 gallons of 50/50 Antifreeze and Distilled Water coolant, it filled right up.
Fired up the engine on the run stand, broke in the new cam and lifters, let it cool down and the coolant level was still at the very top of the radiator, with the thermostat installed.
Have had a lot of trouble in the past getting all the air burped out of the 318s on first start ups, not the type of problems I want to have with fresh engines.
Here is good trick that I learned from @halifaxhops to get all of the air out of your cooling system.
Can drill a small 1/8" hole in your thermostat to let the air bleed out of the cooling system. If you have remaining air pockets in your cooling system you are going to have cooling problem.
The latest 360 build here used the drilled the thermostat, poured in 4 gallons of 50/50 Antifreeze and Distilled Water coolant, it filled right up.
Fired up the engine on the run stand, broke in the new cam and lifters, let it cool down and the coolant level was still at the very top of the radiator, with the thermostat installed.
Have had a lot of trouble in the past getting all the air burped out of the 318s on first start ups, not the type of problems I want to have with fresh engines.
