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Cool mate, I have just had a proper look at your profile picture and see you have a GQ, I have a 98 GU wagon with an 03 td42ti under the bonnet, so radiators will be different anyway, I think I saw on another thread that factory GU rads are all alloy? Never mind the different models that water pump sounds a winner! I definitely have to do something with the cooling system on the big gurl cos I think regularly hitting 120 has got to be doing damage!
Ok another update on this pump..
2 days ago i drove to murray bridge with a caravan weighing 2020kg and it was about 27 degrees as i left Melbourne up the western highway.
Now the climb up the highway is very steep and goes for bloody miles.
The temp got to its highest i have seen reaching 103 degrees but held and quickly came down again when leveled out or slowed down.. now i was still managing about 80kmh as i climbed the hill so was still pushing a bit and i could have gone faster if i wanted.
Once up the temps hovered around 92-98 degrees with the road rise and falling for another couple of hundred kms until i got near Ararat then things flattened out and temps would fall back well into the 80's.
The cooling system was never bothered the whole trip and am very impressed with how it has done to this date.
Now if it was a 40 degree day i would have probably crawled up that big hill and taken it a bit easier.
As per Jonathans, description. I noticed the same change after my pump was fitted about 2 weeks ago now. How quickly the temps fall. Much faster compared to stock pump.
Did you only get to Murry bridge or did you go to Adelaide??
The free way out of Adelaide going up hill is a huge test..
Murray bridge ......Quote:
Originally Posted by biggqwesty
So todays been the warmest day since I had the pump fitted. 29C up north where I was and I thought I'd tickle the car up the hills through Kinglake. Lugged it up a long hill in 5th, and it maxed out at 89, prior to that it'd be well into the 90's, even on lesser slopes...
Once again as per previous posts here, once over the hill and on flat/downhill ground the temps dropped very very fast into high 70's . Usually settles at 78-79.
So far so good.
Was that on Melba up to Kinglake turn off on left or from Whittlsea side?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hodge
I think so Andy, it was not that far after I took off from Glenburn from memory...Quote:
Originally Posted by AB
Ok so you were inbound to Yarra Glen yeah?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hodge
heading south along Melba and i turned right into kinglake-healsville rd. The ascent was just before that if I remember. Not far from toolangiQuote:
Originally Posted by AB