The 80's were great, my man. I was just a kid then, but I've come to appreciate the 80's more and more.Yeah, I'm from the 80's
1. Right hand side coolant should be hotter than the left. Even if the fan is not running, the coolant is being cooled as it goes through the radiator. I don't believe your fan is supposed to come on until the motor reaches 200 deg. My coolant is usually 20 degrees cooler on the right side with no fan. You can feel it to the touch.A couple misc. questions, for those people that are better at this stuff than I am!
1) I am still not convinced my coolant is circulating. I ran the car a little bit over the weekend, and allowed it to idle for a while until it was up to running temp. It seemed to level off around 190-192 degrees and my rad fan never kicked on. That seems normal to me. But I felt around the coolant loop in different places, and in some places, the hoses were warm to the touch, but in other places, they were cool. I suppose I should just shut up and stop worrying about it.
2) Car has a tendency to buck in the lower gears if I am not careful. As I understand it, this can be mitigated by either doing a tune, or by adding a lightweight flywheel, or both. Does that sound accurate?
3) Speaking of flywheels, if I end up putting a new flywheel in, I'll be doing the clutch at the same time. The current clutch grabs and feels solid, but I haven't gone over 30 mph yet and haven't done more than a small handful of launches. I presume I'd need to drop the engine out to install a new clutch. Has anyone done this with the engine still mounted on the non-trans side, at least?
I think that's it for now. My horn only works intermittently. Looks like I'll need to tear into the harness again at some point, when I rebuild my energy for it.
Did you bleed the air from your radiator when you filled it?1. Right hand side coolant should be hotter than the left. Even if the fan is not running, the coolant is being cooled as it goes through the radiator. I don't believe your fan is supposed to come on until the motor reaches 200 deg. My coolant is usually 20 degrees cooler on the right side with no fan. You can feel it to the touch.
As best I could, yes. I'm not sure how effective it was. I've had to add coolant to the loop several times already, which is part of what's making me lean toward "shut up about it already".Did you bleed the air from your radiator when you filled it?
Ark, there are certainly more knowledgeable people on here than myself, but I wouldn't worry about it, and I'm a worrier. If you have coolant at the temp sending unit and it's not showing over 210, it has enough coolant to have something in the radiator and it has to be flowing.Yep, that's what I did. I'll just let it be for now until I have reason to be concerned. (Maybe I'll add a way to check flow!!)