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timmac
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Oct 15, 2018

Ford V-10 Techs Needed, Diagnos My Erratic Coolant Temp

OK I just went on a short trip out of town on my 08 Bounder Ford V-10, went to Laughlin NV and on the way back up that very steep climb out of Laughlin my trans was searching for gears since I was pul...
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theoldwizard1
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Oct 15, 2018
SidecarFlip wrote:
Sounds to me like the sudden max temp was caused by cavitation around the probe and when you dropped the rpm the cavitation ceased and the temp dropped to the normal range.

This is my guess also !

If you had dropped the RPM down to abut 4000 or less in 3rd gear, I will bet the temp would have dropped just as quickly.

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