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Low Coolant Light...Thermostat?

Rather B Blown

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Would a bad thermostat cause the low coolant light to stay on? Mine is always on, but the coolant looks like its pretty full in the resevoir tank..its real brown though lol, ill be changing that soon. anyways my car seems to run fairly cold, like on the gage its right between 70 (very bottom) and 100 (middle) so like right at 1/4. To me thats cold, every car ive driven usually goes right to the middle and stays there. So could the t-stat be the culprit of the low coolant light?
 


A bad t-stat will not cause a low coolant light, but, believe it or not, low coolant will! Take off the radiator cap and check it, don't just look at the reservoir. If it's full there, you could have an air bubble trapped on the sensor, or you could have gunked up sensor if the system's been low for a long time. Dex-Cool does not tolerate air in the system very well.
 
x2 on Scimmia I had all fluids changed when I bought mine and they got air stuck in the line. Wasn't to happy had to take it back.
 
Check the radiator level first, if its properly filled, then the cooling system my need to be bled out. Theres a bleeder on top the T-stat housing. With the motor running and warmed up, crack it open, if air comes out then you neeed to let it all out. You may need to open it and close it a few times. If straight coolant comes out, then your good. If the light STILL appears, its your level sensor on the side of your radiator on the passenger side. Pull it out, I bet ya a dollar that little tip in there is dirty with dex****. Clean it out with carb cleaner and reinstall it, refill the radiator back to the top and bleed again. If that don't fix it, replace that sensor with a new one and you should be good to go (refill + bleed).

I worked on 3 GPs that had this same issues, all of them had the same problem. All were full and bleed out properly. All of them, had gunk in there sensor and need to be cleaned out like I described. After a good cleaning, they working greating without any problems ever again. BTW, flushing the system won't clean this sensor off in my experiance. Taking it out manually and cleaning it is the only good way. Every year when I flush/refill my cooling systems in my cars, I take out that sensor and clean it manually everytime. Works for me....
 


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