Bad thermostat, or stopped up radiator. Doens't the 4.7 have an electric
booster fan that comes on with A/C? Sure sounds mostly like a thermastat
that wont open all the way to me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Spellman" <ASpellman@Newshour.org>
To: "dakota truck" <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject: DML: the dak is overheating
>
> Coming back from ohio this weekend (I live in northern Virginia) the dak
> started overheating in the mountains of west Virginia. The weather was
> hot and muggy and I had the a/c going as well. While climbing one of the
> numerous mountains I noticed my temp gauge way past its normal setting
> and reading around 230-240! I shut off the a/c and took the next exit to
> check it out. All of my fluids were normal and no lights came on the
> dashboard. I limped home with the a/c off and babying it up the hills.
> The temp gauge stayed in the normal range (180?) unless I was climbing
> more hills, even going 55-60 when it would spike up to 210-220. I've got
> a 2000 4.7 quadcab 4x4. any thoughts on this before I take it to the
> shop? Thanks in advance. adam
>
>
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