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tankyanker
Joined: 15 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject: overheating |
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read a post about a driver who sprung a coolant leak and said the engine was "severely" overheated and damaged. had a similar experience about a month ago while pulling a load in east texas. burst a coolant hose coming out of a town on Hwy 84, at night, no shoulder to pull off on. ran the cat for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees, dummy light fading off and on intermittently, until i found a place to pull off and repair the problem. lost about 6 gallons of coolant.
how hot is too hot? what kind of damage does it do to the engine? |
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solo379
Joined: 14 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: Re: overheating |
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tankyanker wrote: ran the cat for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees,
I would not much worry, about that. A bit hot, but not "overheating"! :wink: |
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Splitshifter
Joined: 19 Jun 2006
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Location: Right here
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Assuming the gauge was reading correctly, 200 degrees is not a problem.
The newer Cat engines in the fleet where I work run up to 210 before the engine fan kicks in.
I thought that was too hot, so I read the Cat literature and sure enough, thats the way it's supposed to operate. |
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allan5oh
Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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Location: jackassville (winnipeg, mb)
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| The dummy light was on because of the low coolant, not the temperature. |
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