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Question: 1994 Plymouth Acclaim Overheating

Vincent, These little old ladies that my wife befriended through church have a 1994 Plymouth Acclaim that was overheating. They took it to a local [XXX] name brand shop and this shop recommended everything under the sun, including new muffler bearings and wanted about $900.00. Of course the ladies, sisters, couldn't afford this. They're about 90 years old both. My wife volunteered me because I do like to tinker.

Went and checked on their car yesterday and the coolant looked mostly like water. Upon driving the car around their apartment complex it got hot QUICK. I shut it off before it got fully to the HOT mark. I trailer'ed it to my house because cars are not to be worked on in the apartment complex. The car only has 66,000 miles on it. I replaced the thermostat with the more expensive Stant, about $10.00, because it was said to fail open versus the cheaper one. I of course flushed the system and it was unbelievably corroded due to the near straight, likely, hard water.

New thermostat and gasket, new 50/50 mix in a flushed system, and it still gets hot quick. One thing is the fan would not come on when I took it on the "as fixed" short test ride. And on this ride it got near the 'H'.

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