if you have tried it on a cold day or night and it stayed cool, I wouldn't eliminate the radiator.

Did you stay stock with the compression and displacement?

If you want to check the thermostat, get a good themometer and throw the thermostat in boiling water on a stove until it opens.

 

the radiators flowing good after t-stat opens, and i didnt change any compression and displacement from before the build, just freshened the 306 up with new rings, bearings, and hone.

Just replaced the t-stat day before yesterday and still no change

 

rad or water pump

 

well the water pumps new, WHat would happen if they sold me a standard rotation pump as not the required reverse rotation

 

I have never put a belt on backwards to know the symptoms.

 

me neither

 

lol! i have and it will climb to 220 and stay there!...

before you call names...i had to,bacause my short belt broke,and power steering hose was junk.. so had to run a oddball belt,and run it backwards till i got it to autozone..

 

hey 220 is better than overheating it to the point of no return^^^^^

 

true!..but i white knuckled all the way there..never go to a buddies house that has less junk than you do

 

I KNOW THE FEELING ......for 3 years I drove my DD jetta around with a dead cooling fan , stop and go traffic coming over the potomac river bridge here was death on friday's , before reaching the bridge I'd have a 1/2 mile climb up a small hill , must of started it no less than 50 times......the cooling fan for these was obsolete so just recently I found one and no longer have the issue, but it'd often hit 3/4 gauge