The first rebuild I ever did, I added water to the car and fired her up. She ran and I was excited as hell! I was underneath the car on the creeper looking for leaks. I let her idle for about 5 minutes while I was underneath her. After that, I got up to look at the gauges....water temp was 105C!!!!! I almost **** a brick!...turned her off, let her cool down and added some more water. She was fine after that, but MAN...I was so lucky I got up at 5 minutes instead of 6 minutes.

 

that sucks... but like its been said if it was built good it should have a problem with the lil extra heat. ask me how i know.lol



i dunno what would be worse, blowing the engine cause of a lil overheating or crashing the car cause your looking at your commander....

 

I hope I dont sound too ignorant, but what exactly is the safe limit for temp?

 

when the little needle hits the "H"



if you're ignorant, then I am too

 

over 230f and youre on your own. 230 also happens to be "h" on the s1-s4 guages....

 

Mechanic found the problem. I was running my electric fan the stupid way. I searched out a 12V source in a unused plug near the front coil pack. I pulled the 12V wire and was running the fan w/ it. It overheated the circuit and melted a plug up by the firewall and melted a relay box. It is white and is under the brake booster.



I am in need of one if anyone has a junker parts car and wants to sell it. I need the plug too so I need you to cut the wire below the plug.

 

BTW - The corrrect way to run the fan would be a heavy guage wire from the battery to the fan. Then use a relay to ground it.



That will be how its setup after we fix this.



It never ends.......

 

just to clarify, the relay box is what's white, under the booster, right? anyone know if this will be on an n/a?



if so, I'll check my parts car when I get home

 

Yes its white and under the brake booster. I think its the same from N/A to Turbo. Not sure from Series 4 to Series 5 though.

 

i used the unused slot in the fusebox by the battery, that way its

a. factory looking

b. fused

and c. um well things come in 3's