Heater problem

Is the stock tstat/stock temp range, still in your truck?

sounds to me like a heater core :bigthumb: But what do I know LOL :rotfl:

Nahh its an aftermarket Hypertech 180 degree, i figured that might be part of it but still the smell of mildew or water thats been sitting stinks up the cab, im not gonna have that while im dating new chicks :rotfl:

sounds like a heater core prob, i also am running a 180 and it only takes about 5-10 min idleing to warm up.

well when I was running my 180 thermostat It totally sucked in the winter for heat. Im talkin luke warm heat. I had to have the blower motor on high the whole time and still never got warm. Take that thing out and put a 195 back in if you live in an area with temps around freezing. Theres your problem. As for the mildew smell, you could still have a heater core leaking or maybe your A/C was leaking on the floor but you never noticed it untill It started molding. Or maybe your windshield is leaking around the seams and is allowing water to leak on your floor :dunno:

It was 15 degrees yesterday morning and my heater got nice and hot.
When I had a 160 installed a few years back I had the symptoms you described (luke warm heater).

Philiagorillia: what does you temp gauge go up to?

On 2005-12-01 11:17, chizzle1 wrote:
It was 15 degrees yesterday morning and my heater got nice and hot.
When I had a 160 installed a few years back I had the symptoms you described (luke warm heater).

Philiagorillia: what does you temp gauge go up to?

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I dunno it dosent work :rotfl:

:wall: Might want to put that on the "to do" list. : Would make diagnosing certain problems a little easier.

On 2005-12-01 12:53, chizzle1 wrote:
:wall: Might want to put that on the "to do" list. : Would make diagnosing certain problems a little easier.

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Im not to sure how to fix that, is it easy to do? It was around august, one morning i went to start the truck and the gauge never popped up like it usually did, and its never worked sence. The truck has never gotten hot or ran bad or anything though. I asked my bro and he said it could be just the gauge itself pooped out, common sence stuff i guess...

I don't have my truck here (at work) or I'd run outside and look, but it should just be a simple 1 or 2 wire push on connector hooked to a sensor somewhere on the block.

I am sure somebody on here knows the exact location, but I have the same truck (2wd version) there aren't that many wires under the hood, shouldn't be too hard to find.

Once you do find it, there are 2 ways to test:
1) you can have the key on and ground the wire (if 2 wire setup do not ground, jump the 2 wires together) going to the guage to see if the guage moves or not. I believe it works on resistance, the less resistance the hotter the temp. So grounding or jumpering the wires should peg the gauge inside.
2) Get a mulit-meter, set it to ohms, and hook it onto the sender. The resistance should decrease as it gets warmer, if it reads open, or doesn't change then you know it's the sender.

Hope this helps some.

Sweet, thanx man, i'll take any info i can get. I'll just do it when its not so damn windy out there.

its actually on the intake somewhere near the thermostat housing :bigthumb: