Weird cooling system behaviour
SOUNDS like factory guage is wrong
I'll be installing an aftermarket gauge as soon as my local parts place opens and I can pick one up to see. Although I suspect it's a combinatin of a bad radiator, bad thermostat and leaky heater core.
I found a leak that sprays a mist of coolant out of the rad once warm under pressure today after I discovered rad fluid on my front bumper.
Than while mounting a tachometer to get a handle on my 904's quirks I noticed collant leaking by the heater core box.
I topped the system off and put another bottle of radiator stopleak in it and seems better since then. I've got heat and nothing is leaking for now. Obviously I'll be replacing all three, hopefully at the same time. Rad and Tstat have priority for now, might just bypass the heater core even though it's freezing, literally. Killed my already failing battery overnight :(
Piece by piece this car will be resurrected!
