Mitsubishi: Had Radiator Core Replaced and Still Overheats?

More details needed, like the size of the engine.


<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:30:46 -0800, "BBA"
<billybadausSO|CKS@comcastSO|CKS.net> wrote:

rubbish snipped.

Find your top radiator hose, follow it to the engine block, where it
meets the engine block is a housing that contains the thermostat.

It must be replaced with one of the same temperature rating, and the
spring side faces the engine, not the radiator. If you install it
backwards, you will do irreparable damage to your engine with
overheating.

Get the right part, install it the right way.

Suspect your water pump. Look at the weep hole on it. Is it leaking
water? Time to replace it. A little in the way of a gray deposit is
OK there, but fluid coming out of it is not.

Lg

> I have a 1990 Mits van that started overheating. I had the radiator 

....am I missing something?
 

need more info - "can not compute" <grin>
 

is possible that is somewhere in the engine compartment near or possibly on the
engine!
 

That's great!!

BBA

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 com wrote:
 

Assuming the radiator actually was replaced or re-cored, it sounds as
though the problem was not properly diagnosed. What led to the repair
order with "re-core or replace radiator" written on it? Did you take the
van to the shop and say "It overheats", or did you take it to the shop and
say "Replace or re-core the radiator"?

Low-speed/in-traffic overheating is more frequently related to
insufficient airflow (defective, inoperative or improperly-installed
fan(s), physical blockage of air path through A/C condenser and/or
radiator) than to water flow. Water flow problems (e.g. plugged radiator)
more frequently make themselves known under hot-day/high-speed-driving
conditions.

DS

Thanks Lawrence I'll check both in the AM.

there are other things in the system that do the job of cooling.
the water pump may have tired impellers, the thermostat may be defective,
the fan drive may be bad, the fan thermostat (if used) may be defective.
look at the whole system and work from the cheapest device to the more
expensive stuff.
seldom replace a radiator unless it leaks.
good luck, sammmm


<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

I'm going to guess a cooling fan is not turning on.
Could be a bad fan or the thermostat or fan relay.

Rich
<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

May also be a head gasket on the way out ...


Stewart DIBBS
www.vysor.com/lancerproject