New here so bare with me. I have a 94 5.0 and she gets a little hot at stops. New cap and thermostat and the water pump doesn't look very old. It's perfect while driving (oh, the fan works too) but gets a little closer to the red then I like when stopped at lights. It even dumps some water from the overflow. I can tell someone has put that stop leak junk in the rad before. Could it be plugged cooling fins? Any advise? Thanks
cooling issue
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Slykin
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Before you go and spend more money on it, i'd suggest flushing the radiator first and see where that puts ya.
Slykin
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I would lean towards the pump then.. my cousin has at least 2 bottles of the stop leak in his mustang(cuz he's a tard) and his doesn't overheat. It looks like it's full of oatmeal. It could also be a headgasket, though I'm pretty sure you'd notice it smoking/using coolant. Just be careful about throwing money at it, that gets expensive.
JoshHooten
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do you have the stock pulleys or are they under drive. the under drive could cause it to overheat
Slykin
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+1 Good point.
Also, it could be your radiator like you mentioned. The reason my cousin put in the 2 bottles of stop-leak was because about 1/6 of the radiator was rotted and made the car overheat. Changed the radiator out and it's fine now. Just do a thorough visual inspection, radiator flush etc.
