running hot

MustangJunkie · Mar 29, 2010

a buddy of mine is lookn at a 96 4.6 and tha person say its running hot after bout15 min of driving said no water n oil or coming out of exhaust but the car is about 2hr away from us and kinda whated a idea of what it could be b4 we drove that far to look at it any advice would b great i dont know much bout tha 4.6s thanks

pp_puncher · Mar 29, 2010

Possibly stuck t-stat,or maybe air pocket in the coolant which very simple to fix, dead fan, or ccrm for fan, which you can buy a new ccrm $$$, or cut the pig tail and run a toggle switch(there are write-ups). An easy way to test the ccrm and the fan is to turn the a/c to max and the fan should come on, if it doesn't then one of those is your problem. That is all I can think of at the moment.

Lee12609 · Mar 29, 2010

is it loosing coolant? low coolant light "should" be coming on to alert the owner. passenger side seam on the radiator is a pretty common area for these cars to leak. is the fan working, possibly the CCRM not working therefore no fan, or bad fan motor.

oh and i see your avatar is from Zmax, i was there were you?

MustangJunkie · Mar 29, 2010

Lee12609 said:
is it loosing coolant? low coolant light "should" be coming on to alert the owner. passenger side seam on the radiator is a pretty common area for these cars to leak. is the fan working, possibly the CCRM not working therefore no fan, or bad fan motor.

oh and i see your avatar is from Zmax, i was there were you?

yes thats me beside the 1 and only jack roush that was cool as hellOOOOand got my coat signed

Lee12609 · Mar 29, 2010

ha, that guy told you he was Jack???

just kidding, thats badass.

MustangJunkie · Mar 30, 2010

sorry not zmax i was at nmra in commercethis past weekend

DropTopPony · Mar 30, 2010

The 96's had a silent recall for the radiator/fan assembly being below par and overheating. If you complained they upgraded you to the newer 97 up rad/fan assembly for free.

Mine overheated right in front of the Ford dealer and puked coolant all over the road and they said nothing was wrong after having it for a day. I never actually checked to see if they swapped parts after reading of the recall several years later.