The fan shroud is very important for keeping your engine cooler at an idle! It won't matter too much when you're on the highway! It's purpose is to make the fan draw air through the whole radiator, not just the area of the fan!
My car when it had the online 6 didn't have one. I will see if I can get one from autokrafters. Do any of you who have the champion radiator know if the shroud requires modification to fit the radiator?
I installed the 180 and it stated at 190 for about 15 minutes. I recede the engine and it went to 230 and stayed there. Not sure if this is normal either.
check and make sure you have the right water pump,had a similiar problem because the parts store gave me a reverse flow pump for a foxbody
The water pump I have is a counterclock wise and my engine is turning clockwise. This is more than likely the cause correct? How do you know what direction your suppose to look at it from? Inside the car on the seat or standing in front of the vehicle? The model pump number is 58-212. It says on a website that its a counter clockwise and on oreillys it says a standard pump. If im standing in front of the car the belt and everything is going clockwise.
If you got a waterpump for an LTD, then its a std rotation pump. As for clockwise/counterclockwise, that depends on from which direction you're looking at it from. I do not know which direction that determination is made from in the parts world. Most go by std or reverse rotation in identifying their pumps. All Mustangs from 79-95 used a reverse pump (in three different versions: 79-85, 86-93 & 94-95). Pickups and vans used them from 1986 ot 87 til the end of the pushrod motors in 1997. The Vics, Towncars and Marquis 5.0's nver did use them, all were std rotation. Not sure about the T-Bird/Cougar motors before 1988, but from 88 to 93, all used a reverse pump
Also, does your lower radiator hose have a spring inside it ? It should to keep it from collapsing when the motor is rev'd and the thermostat is closed.
The bypass hose you buy fits other make engines also. You need the cut the end of the hose a little off both ends to make the hose shorter to fit correctly on a Ford then it won't kink in the middle. I never measured how much to cut but I'm guessing it could be anywhere between 3/8" to 3/4" or maybe more. Cut a little at a time untill you get it to fit without kinking.
So then I have the correct part. Its not really over heating it just goes more than I would like it to. Ive flushed the radiator twice already and there has been a bunch of crap in it. It smells like green tea as odd as that sounds. Maybe I just need to keep flushing it. All the crap in there is brown. I drove the vehicle yeseterday around my block it seemed fine except the transmission I bought is not working right. Might have to have it rebuilt. I should have drove to scoopers house and bought his.
Oh the bypass hose I have I made from heater hose. Im guessing I should go buy the correct one. It only has about 4mm that water can pass through.
The correct bypass hose is available from Ford and ALL the aftermarket stores that I have found. I would definitely correct that problem. Cut it to length like rthomas suggested and you'll have the correct flow around the thermostat. Is your water pump currently driven by the smooth side of the belt or the grooved side? If you just put all of this together and the water is brown, sounds like there is sediment in the block around the cylinders or elsewhere that wasn't completely flushed before assembly. My uncle and I did a 390 years back that did the same thing and the block was half full of what looked like mud down both sides of the block below the ports where the water pump feeds into the block.
Im running nothing but altenator and water pump. Its running on the grooved side. The water pump is definetly going the correct way. I took the cap off and watched the water go in at the bottom hose and come back through the return hose. Im pretty sure I just need to get the proper hose that your referring too. Just from looking at the crap in the radiator im pretty sure that the machine shop didnt flush all of the garbage out. So I will keep flushing it until it looks clear and then add my antifreeze. I will keep everyone posted on whats going on.
