OVERHEATING PROBLEM...HELP - Diesel Forum

sandman 36 · 06-18-2001, 08:19 PM

I just bought a 2001 Excursion. Today it overheated to the point of shutting itself off. It only has 1081 miles on it. Has anybody had this problem? [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]

Does anyone know what long term damage this may cause?

Worm · 06-18-2001, 09:57 PM

How long have you had it? maybe the t-stat is not opening. Well could be several things including the t-stat: water level, water pump,fan clutch/clutch circuit. It could also be a faulty temp sensor saying its hot when its not. Too bad you have problems already, we've got 1,500 on ours. It had 35 miles on it when I got it. It seemed to run like crap for a little while but I think that was fuel related. I'm only getting 14 mpg also, I was thinking It was going to be better!

POLR BR · 06-19-2001, 09:56 PM

Worm,

Hang on -- it gets better. We started out with 10-12 mpg. It gradually rose over time to 14-15-16-17-18-19-20mpg. Make sure you count by the old fashioned manual method. As a check you can use the mpg guage but make sure you reset it with each fill up.