| Overheating caused by loose thermostat butterfly [message #175146] |
Sat, 30 June 2012 15:21  |
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Bill Freeman
Messages: 122
Registered: March 2004
Location: Colerain, NC
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Just wanted to share an anecdote about overheating. Several years ago I bought a used 69 Toronado that had chronic overheating problems. It had a relatively new looking thermostat in it and the thermostat passed the boiling water on the stove test. I left the thermostat out and it still overheated. Eventually discovered the butterfly from some previous thermostat had broken off and was stuck in a water passage in the intake manifold. After I fished the butterfly out of the manifold it stopped overheating. Murphy's law strikes again.
Bill Freeman
78 Royale 73 Sequoia
Colerain, North Carolina
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| Re: Overheating caused by loose thermostat butterfly [message #175187 is a reply to message #175146] |
Sat, 30 June 2012 22:58  |
JohnL455
Messages: 4447
Registered: October 2006
Location: Woodstock, IL
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I just bought a forclosure which is a newer builders private home that went belly up. One toilet would take 2 days for the water to go down. Plunging --no good. Cheapo toilet auger---no good. My freind brought over a more HD toilet auger and we were running up against something. 5 year old dried up duct tape. Must have sealed off for construction debris and and some dummy didn't remove and installed over it. I saved the $100 plumber service call. Sort of like your butterfly in the pipes.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| Re: [GMCnet] Overheating caused by loose thermostat butterfly [message #175297 is a reply to message #175214] |
Mon, 02 July 2012 11:20 |
jhbridges
Messages: 8412
Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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Worse story - Cousin works for Heery International, who designed the Georgia Dome and did the construction oversight. Soil pipe pressure tests went well, until the 'plugs' were removed. The main soil pipe from one side of the Dome whih crosses under the center of it still held pressure. After what he called some esoteric searching, they decided to jackhammer up the center of the playing field for about a 5 foot square, down to the outfall. Sure enough, inside a splice was the pressure plug the plumbing contractor 'lost' (read forgot) when he tested the half of the system which the pipe served. When they pull the turf each year after the season for checks/repairs/whatever, you can see the patch in concrete of a slightly different shade. The cost nearly bankrupted the plumbing contractor.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm beach
From: Mike & Chris Hughes <whose38@yahoo.com>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Overheating caused by loose thermostat butterfly
Sounds like the builder wasn't paying the plumber. Pay back!
Mike
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Mike & Chris Hughes
1977 Kingsley
Wander Inn
Phoenix, Az.
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