Thread: help input!!! sbc just getting hot when driven over 30 mins.!!!!

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I don’t know about the timing, and cam but it doesn’t seem like it should run hotter while moving and bringing in fresh air. I had a 40 Chevy coupe 350 dual quads, mild cam just the opposite, idle in traffic it would over heat. I would have to pull off the to the side of the road let it cool down, run it 70 or 80 it was fine but when traffic would slow it would over heat. I had a new 4 row radiator installed and a heat shield, I think it was my engine was sitting too low and the air was going across to much of the top part of the engine the reason I say this is I also had a 41 Chevy 350 the engine set higher and it ran according to the thermostat. Just a thought maybe your gage is off!!!

Someone should be able to help. Where is Denny, he could tell you?

Richard

Sounds to me like the pusher fan is blocking air flow at highway speeds. You should have plenty capacity without it. Consider taking it out and give her a whirl.

Kitz

Ditto to Jon's comment.

Sounds dumb, but check your fan. Be sure it isn't turning the wrong way! A newer fan off a reverse rotation pump will act like yours is, turning faster and fighting the natural air flow at speed. Or even could be the pump turning backwards!

Pope may be on to something to check....I changed one of my trucks to serpentine...went to Chevy and bought a reverse water pump and put it on....the thing would idle for hours here in Tucson with no problem. It would run at low speeds with no problem. But, at about 50mph, it got hotter than a dickens. I tried everything...one day I was leaning over the grille looking at what to do next and realized that the air was blowing out the grille, not being pulled in. I had reused the old fan....wrong direction. Sitting still, the air thru the radiator was going the wrong way but it still worked....going down the road, the fan was trying to push the air forward and the ram effect was pushing against the fan. Simple stuff, big pain.