Please Help!! Overheating problem

[Norah]

I had the timing belts changed on my 00 ls. Drove for about a week and the car starts to overheat all the time. Change out the thermostat. Still overheating, so changed out the waterpump. Still overheating. So we finally changed out the radiator. Still overheating. Funny thing only heats when driven, can idle for hours and will stay at 216. Does anybody have any suggestions please. I am at my witts end!

Norah

 

[joegr]

Is this the V8 or the V6?
In either event, your car has no timing belts, so it sounds like someone has ripped you off on that!
After any work on the cooling system, all of the trapped air has to be correctly bled out of the system. Was this done. If so, I hope not by the same one as claimed there were timing belts.
If it doesn't overheat idling, then the fan is probably not the problem.

Why all this guess work and throwing parts at it? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to go to a good dealer and get it correctly diagnosed?

Does the engine run correctly other than overheating?

 

[Norah]

its a v8, and it was the chains both sides that I had replaced at the dealership. How do you bleed it out correctly? My husband thought he would know how to fix it.

 

[Norah]

The engine runs perfect, had the heads checked out, not that either. Sounds like it is going to be bleeding the cooling system.

 

[joegr]

http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/tech/Lincoln-LS/CoolingSystemDraining/

 

[SlickLS]

+1 on bleeding the system..i just changed my timing assembly and had the same problem when I got it back together..there is a bleeder valve by the coolant jug under the hood..unscrew it and then run your car until you see a stream of coolant coming out then replace the bleeder cap and top off the coolant

 

[lseguy]

Bleeding HAS to be done in a precise manner, by the book. I've found that if I dont fill that tower up FULLY. I mean FULLY, I cant get 100% of the air out of the system.

 

[Norah]

thanks so much. This forum has certainly saved my cars life.
Norah