Cooling Issues

[westofb]

Originally Posted by Devil Pup

Thanks for all the feed back guys. . just to go over some things, the fan shroud is the correct one for the truck/radiator and the fan that is on it stuffs this shroud. its about half way in the shroud and half way out. "perfect according to the mechanic" i recently blew up the motor due to heat when the stock gauge went out and was reading normal. so i replaced the motor, flushed the radiator and made sure that the water pump was working and put the new gauge in. so im thinkin go back to the 180 degree T-stat at least? and i will check the coolant to make sure i have the right fluids in it. anything else i should be on the look out for or that i missed? thanks again everyone, Mark

when you replaced the motor did you upgrade any parts? lots of guys go to serpentine belt systems which can be had cheap. the water pump from the serp belt system looks the same as an old long water pump, but it is made to spin the opposite dirrection. If you have the wrong water pump (turning the wrong dirrection) no matter what you do, it will over heat! just throwing this out there, may not be the case at all, but no one else mentioned it.

Did you replace motor with a new one or junk yard find? Could have a head gasket problem? Just some points to ponder.