roger longman
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- Joined
- May 13, 2008
- Messages
- 558
- Location
- southern california
- Corvette
- 1977 c3 orange ! 1988 c4 kinda purple 1991 'race
The other evening I was caught in crawl/stop traffic for about 45 minutes, ambient around 60F. saw that the temperature gauge was reading 221F. ambient, a little high but, nothing to worry about, I thought. WRONG. Pulled into the store parking lot, shut off cleanly. Came back 20 minutes later, she started, ran for about 3 seconds with cronic pre-detonation (ignition, pinking), spluttering and then cutting out. Tried again, about 10 times in the next 25 minutes, same thing, gauge reading 211F. Called AAA. The guy got there in 30 minutes, asked for the key, I said "let me crank it once more, it'll probably start now you're here". YUP. Drove home (no traffic), put the 'magic' key in the following day, fans kicked in, haven't had time to look further yet. Symtoms, to me, are of over heating but how? What am I missing about the gauge reading ? Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated.......Roger.