overheating

[Huw Powell]

Zsolt wrote:
>
> I don't know the details, I just wanted to do a bit of troubleshooting
> for him. It does sound like a blocked flow. I didn't realized the heater
> core was before the thermostat.

more like in parallel with the thermostat loop, although this diagram
doesn;t even make it very clear, that, yes, the heater core pipe exits
on the block side of the thermostat, "before" it.

http://www.humanspeakers.com/cgi-bin/humanspeakers/audi_img.pl?image=cooling-flow.gif&desc=typical%20coolant%20flow%20diagram%20for%20Audi%205%20cylinder%20engine

sorry about the cut and paste it takes to make the url work...

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