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Why The Hell Is My Mark8 Runnin Hot!?

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Posted by: 302_boy

*ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!*
I have a 1995 Lincoln Mark VIII. Body= 120k, Motor= 72k (had a junk yard motor put in 2700 miles ago) has been running just fine then all of a sudden about 5days ago while I was idling the temp. Just started climbing (all the way up) so I shut it off and let it sit for 10min. then it was back down to ½ again. But within 10 more min it was back up again!!
I replaced the thermostat, had the radiator flushed and checked (its Good), Put a new temp sensor in it, and also wired the fan to always be pulling while the car is on.
*WHAT COULD IT BE????*
Please email me or call me if you could because I am rarely able to get on.
THANKS, Kyle

Posted by: Frogman

Did you burp the cooling system?

Is the water pump in good shape?

email? What's that?

Posted by: GMAN

Water pump would be my guess. Seems like you have everything else covered. That is a 30 minute fix. Try that and see what happens.

Posted by: Joeychgo

Vaporlock is my guess

Posted by: Frat-man-du

Air in the sytem like Frogman states. They have to open the little cap on the crossover tube to really get the air out any mech that has worked on Cobras or the Marks will know this.

Posted by: LINCBRA

my friend had the same problem.. he replaced his radiator and it worked

Posted by: Frogman

See... this is what annoys me. You get these people who are desperate, they create an account, post one question, we try to help them out, then most we never hear from them again... until next time.

Posted by: MonsterMark

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frogman

See... this is what annoys me. You get these people who are desperate, they create an account, post one question, we try to help them out, then most we never hear from them again... until next time.

Those ungrateful kiddies.

Posted by: Stack

Bastardos!

Posted by: Roadboss

Obviously this was just a test. In the event of a real emergency your local emergency channel-----------