180 T-stat during winter?
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Originally Posted by dbtk2
Also, you don't want the engine to run cold all the time, from time to time you do want it to warm up over 212* to boil the water in the crankcase.
I run a drilled 180F thermostat in my '95. It is used for a lot of short trips where the engine does not warm up before it is shut off. This does cause a small amount of water to condense in the engine, but just one normal warmup is sufficient to remove the water. This is supported by oil analysis. I recently had my oil analyzed after driving my car for about twenty minutes to make sure I got a warm sample of oil. The oil analyzed 0.0% water.
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From: North of Buffalo, NY *** NEBF '05, '06, '07 *** ***ONBF & NYBF 06; 07*** ***WCBF 06***
Originally Posted by bill buttermore
Finally, I don't know if 2000 models were still using Dex, but if so, I would drain, flush and re-fill with the newer "mixes with any color" coolant using the filling procedure described in Techinfo.
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As long as you stay with the size hole that Bill Buttermore listed, you'll do fine. Anything much larger will let too much coolant through when the theremostat is closed where it will throw a code.
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