Did you make sure the cooling system expelled all the air from the engine? You have to "burp" the cooling system or an air pocket gets trapped causing overheating. Two ways to do this: run it with the radiator cap off making sure it stays full through a couple thermostat cycles and the air will be expelled, or use the bleed valve to bleed off the air while its running, opening it when the temperature comes up and leave it open until a steady stream of coolant runs out then close it back. You need to open/close the bleed valve several times over up to 15 minutes. If there is no air and it is still overheating with fans working, you got a bad thermostat out of the box.
See if when you remove the radiator cap when its cold it pushes antifreeze out if so you a head or head gasket problem you can also do this with putting a pressure gauge on the radiator and pumping it up to the recommended pressure usually says it on the cap and see if the pressure bleeds off. best of luck to ya
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Check the lower radiator hose to see if it has gone "soft" Check when the engine is cool and stopped, grasping the hose and giving it a squeeze, you should feel the presence of a "spring" in the hose. That should be there to prevent the hose from collapsing as the water pump draws coolant through it. Without the spring, the draw created by the pump intake, and the resulting venturi effect will collapse the hose, cutting off the flow.
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Hold throttle open to a normal highway RPM in the driveway and observe rad hoses for collapsing. Do your run up the road & see what rpm your at when gauge starts to move toward hot, then use that rpm, in driveway . You did run that engine for quite a while with rad cap off when you refilled coolant, with heater on correct?
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maybe the sensor that turns on the fans might of gone bad . . and turning on the ac when engine is gettin hot is not going to help instead turn on the heater to reduce the heat , also overheating causes hoses and gaskets to get soft and get destroyed
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