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[thecrusader]

If you where wearing a foil hat, none of this would have happened.

[WHITE-TRASH]

The thermostat wasn't the problem. Either the cat or muffler was blocking the exhaust and causing excessive back pressure. Throwing parts at it didn't fix it.

[kgb424]

Your full of shit and once again

the thermostat was stuck open and caused the fuel to boil in the fuel pump and when cold air forced in the carb hit the boiling gas it cause the vapor lock

It did with cat and muffler connected or completely removed, it was running way to hot, I changed the thermostat and it dropped the temps done

and the previous owner admitted to me he never did any maintenance on the Truck

and admitted he could easily fixed the oil leak that ****ed carb and made it run rich and plugged up the cat

cause the smog referee told him he needed to replace the cat and replace the bad sensors on the carb that the oil caused to stop functioning, but he did not do anything

and the referee told him it was running way to rich, and he didn't do anything to improve how it ran

and eventually the carb and the smog system were turned to shit

I replaced the carb, removed the smog shit

and the truck has ran a 1000 times better from when I first got it

it only cost $ 75.00 for the replacement cat, and how much is a can of ****ing carb cleaner too clean off the oil and unfunk the carb

the previous owner was a dumbass and didn't work in the truck, and willing admitted it

I replaced the fuel pump and the coil cause they had over 300,000 miles and they were like $110 for both

and now I know, I won't have problems with them later on

Mark and I figured it out, I was letting it idle to long at start up when the truck is cold

at the fast idle it runs rich

I need to blip the throttle a lot sooner

cause at high idle it runs rich and turns the inside of the tail pipe sooty

So that explains why it was always sooty

I'm going to stop letting it idle high for long periods

I have slowly fixed all of the previous owner problems

and the truck runs good

and has for a little over 3 years with no problems, until now

so let see how long it goes again until it has problems

[WHITE-TRASH]

An open thermostat won't cause a vehicle to run hot. Your extreme lack of vehicle fundamental knowledge is impressive though.

Odds are your buddy agreed with your hypothesis so you'd stop blathering ad nauseum. People that speak on and on about a subject often find those they are speaking to will agree with whatever it is they are talking about if they go on long enough. It has nothing to do with actually being wrong or right.

[59sled]

It does baffle me how a stuck open thermostat would do that. A stuck closed thermostat is one thing, but a open one I don't see how.

I have ran many older cars without a thermostat without a issue. I know it's not the right thing to do but it gets the job done.

[donny8594]

you bought a 300k mile truck from a guy who didnt do any maintance on it. and you call him a dumbass.