Hi everybody, having trouble on long pulls with caravan on ,Turbo running at 525 max with foot to floor and temp gauge soon follows up to 95 if I do not back of throttle, once over the pull it seems to cool down o.k, tried dropping a gear but made no difference. Changed to 2 thermo elect fans but made it worse as it takes longer to cool and does not seem to ram cool as good, had radiator checked and told it was clean, pyrometer indicates that its not overfueling, thermostat seems ok but can anybody tell me how long does a water pump last or how can I check it flow especially at high rev, have locked up fan hub and considering putting back on. Would appreciate any hints before spending more dollars :driving:1990 Maverick still going strong (or was)
Pommy
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Yeah, look im no expert but I have seen a few water cooled turbo cars start to warm up after being on boost for a long period of time. Remember your turbo EGT's are 500-600 pre/post turbo its gonna heat up the water coming out of your turbo rather allot.Good day Rhysta. yes it is a DTS watercooled and I have put return straight into radiator as I thought it was the cause of a false gauge reading at the thermo capunkrock:
As for why your cooling system cant keep up is beyond me, but the turbo might not even really be the cause of the problem at all, like Marin said try run a bit more boost if it will, this will drop your egts as its a leaner air/fuel mix and there for might help keep things cooler.
Other then that maybe take it to a tuner and get them to load it right up on the dyno I guess and see what they have to say about it..
Rhys
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