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This is only the second test I have ever done with this system. First nothing second gases in the antifreeze. Amazon of course.

The blue liquid tester. It turned yellow almost instantly. Proving it has exhaust gases in the antifreeze. It also could be a cracked head too I guess. Either way, the heads are coming off!

Haha! No not a one. Although I did learn a ton. So not a waste of time.

Well it’s a blown head gasket! I’ll start there. Crazy. It may have been blown all this time. Although I’m glad I put a robust cooling system on for later abuse. While I’m in there, I may put some new heads on too. Get a little bit better flow. Once those are fixed, I will figure out if it needs...

It is a brand new ACDelco water pump. It may be that it’s assembled backwards. I have heard of that. So crazy!!! Mine came with serpentine factory so went with OEM. Thanks for the direction.

Finally removed my hood and drove it during the day. 93 degrees. It still was heating up just slower. Today at the same place 215-220. Last test 220-225. I’m sure it would continue to climb if I had more hill. I tried overdrive and also third. They were right around the same temp. As @aztoyman...

That is my next step! Thank you for that information.

Well, drove it again in the sun. Still heating up. I’m going to take off the hood and see. I’ll install the heater also. See what that brings.

Sounds like a plan. Thank you.

No, it’s just capped. The PO did that before I bought it. So your saying get it circulating?

I’m almost positive it’s full. I I even side hilled and let it sit. The only downside is that I don’t have a heater plumbed right now so no circulation through the heater.

It’s a PCV and it’s a throttle body.

It’s as far away from the firewall as it can be. Any closer to the front grill and I could not have put a radiator and fan in. Timing was set at TDC as instructed with the wire unplugged. Not sure about fuel mixture, it’s a stock TBI controlled by the computer. I’ll check the timing in the...

I test drove it tonight. 90 degrees out, no sun and it didn’t go past 190 degrees. All the same drives with no heating issues. The only odd thing was, at the top of the grade my top hose was 80 degrees and my bottom hose was 175 degrees. The thermostat housing was 184. The gauge is showing 190...

Copy that. Well we are at a good spot then. Then I would like it to run cooler climbing hills. Do you think ceramic coating my headers might help a little? I’m still going to test to make sure what the real temps are.