Another thought, I always drill an 1/8 hole on the outer ring of the t-stat to allow air to bypass while filling. Might be worth a shot.

 

How are your cooling fans wired?

 

Thats actually the head gaskets which need to be installed a specific way. They are usually labeled "front" on them, so it makes it more difficult to install them wrong. I made that mistake once before, and after that, I always double check before re-installing the head.

 

I put in water wetter today. It ran around 200* in traffic. Whihc was decent to me. I still haven't put the stock fan back on. I'll be doing that this weekend.

 

Did you test your gauge before you installed it to make sure its accurate?....

Put the bulb in boiling water, check for temp to be around 212*.....

 

Ok, last week, I drove in some decent traffic. The car went as high as 210, but no higher. So, yesterday, I changed the fans out and put the stock fan back on. I fixed any issues the stock connector may have had with the stock fan also. (I didn't see any, but whatever. Cody, you know what I mean when I say that I put the wires back the way they should be. ) Today, I took it back out in decent traffic again, and it never went over 200* with the A/C on. I'm happy with that.


So thanks guys for all your suggestions, insults, laughs, and whatever else may have been said/typed. I only hope that my next thread reaches 17 pages, but has USABLE info on most of them. LOL

 

cool man it only took a month jfwy good luck

 

hehe. its kind of hard to fuck up putting intake gaskets on wrong with 5.0's anyway. The curves at the front and the back of lifter valley are totally different. If they were installed wrong it would be blatantly obvious.

 

Not to Joker Instituted... Fucking dumbass.

 

Joey! I heard from a lil bird you been getting you're ass whipped and choked out lately doing some training...? Lol

It's all in good nature man. If Tim abuses you too much, come my way and i'll train with ya. I got trophies too ya know... Lol.