RE: 96' Mustang 3.8 overheating problem with no heat?
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ORIGINAL: MantaDreams
guys guys guys
stop troubleshooting backwards from the worst possible answer.
start simple
1. thermostat installed in proper direction.
2. sufficient coolant
3. properly bleed air from hollow bolt on t-stat housing, while filling.
4. water pump not working
5. plug in hoses
6. if hoses replaced, were they the correct ones (one of the hoses has a special restictor built-in.... I guess to regulate flow.) were the hoses connected exactly back the way they were.
7. fouled rad
THEN start on the more complicated, deeper, threatening problems.
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dude your way wrong here.
i have done a ton of 3.8 gaskets mostly on FWD ford 3.8's but they are the same engine except for bellhousing.
it is the headgaskets, period. most garages don't know how to eliminate the problem and just replace the gaskets with the cheapest parts available to them while charging you out the ass.
it's the gaskets. i have seen it hundreds of times
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