I've been driving my Z to and around campus and it has somehow managed to drink over a half tank of gas...in one day.
I didn't pay attention to actual mileage figures, but as I was driving down the freeway I could see a difference in the position of the needle every couple of minutes. I don't expect it to be a fuel sipper, but this is nuts!
In warm weather it runs normally, but lately it has had trouble starting and warming up. The temp gauge runs at about 1/4 of the way on the freeway and 1/3 in the city, well below normal. Scale is from 120-250 degrees farenheit.
The engine seems to be getting too much cold air blowing through the radiator and is not reaching operating temps thereby keeping it in rich warmup mode.
Is it possible that the wrong thermostat was installed or that it's malfunctioning? Surely this can't be normal. Also, I installed an electric fan, but that should only help it...why won't it warm up?
I didn't pay attention to actual mileage figures, but as I was driving down the freeway I could see a difference in the position of the needle every couple of minutes. I don't expect it to be a fuel sipper, but this is nuts!
In warm weather it runs normally, but lately it has had trouble starting and warming up. The temp gauge runs at about 1/4 of the way on the freeway and 1/3 in the city, well below normal. Scale is from 120-250 degrees farenheit.
The engine seems to be getting too much cold air blowing through the radiator and is not reaching operating temps thereby keeping it in rich warmup mode.
Is it possible that the wrong thermostat was installed or that it's malfunctioning? Surely this can't be normal. Also, I installed an electric fan, but that should only help it...why won't it warm up?
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