I had posted before about my car pinging a lot after driving it for a
while...at almost ANY
load or throttle setting when it gets bad...
It now seems the engine is overheating; running the heater in the car seems
to help
(the air temp out the vents can reach 190F(!), and is never below 170F-what
is it supposed to be?)
if pinging gets bad, pulling over with heater on for a few minutes 'resets'
the pinging for a while.
Cooling fans, when they kick on, stay on a long time...
The odd thing, and this is a killer-the temp guage never rises from its
normal setting.
The guage has been tested, although the sensor has not...
A Water pump, horribly blocked pipes in the engine of radiator, or a
thermostat is my guess-
I will find out this week-end! I'll post back on it...

AJH

 

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:50:50 -0700, "Vector Viper" <ahowald@w-link.net>
wrote:

>I had posted before about my car pinging a lot after driving it for a
>while...at almost ANY
>load or throttle setting when it gets bad...
> It now seems the engine is overheating; running the heater in the car seems
>to help
>(the air temp out the vents can reach 190F(!), and is never below 170F-what
>is it supposed to be?)
>if pinging gets bad, pulling over with heater on for a few minutes 'resets'
>the pinging for a while.
>Cooling fans, when they kick on, stay on a long time...
>The odd thing, and this is a killer-the temp guage never rises from its
>normal setting.
>The guage has been tested, although the sensor has not...
>A Water pump, horribly blocked pipes in the engine of radiator, or a
>thermostat is my guess-
>I will find out this week-end! I'll post back on it...
>
>AJH
>
Could be a number of things, but I'd think thermostat first.

 

check the radiator/condenser fins for road gunk build up.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:50:50 -0700, "Vector Viper" <ahowald@w-link.net>
wrote:

>I had posted before about my car pinging a lot after driving it for a
>while...at almost ANY
>load or throttle setting when it gets bad...
> It now seems the engine is overheating; running the heater in the car seems
>to help
>(the air temp out the vents can reach 190F(!), and is never below 170F-what
>is it supposed to be?)
>if pinging gets bad, pulling over with heater on for a few minutes 'resets'
>the pinging for a while.
>Cooling fans, when they kick on, stay on a long time...
>The odd thing, and this is a killer-the temp guage never rises from its
>normal setting.
>The guage has been tested, although the sensor has not...
>A Water pump, horribly blocked pipes in the engine of radiator, or a
>thermostat is my guess-
>I will find out this week-end! I'll post back on it...
>
>AJH
>