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Weird problem just started. Noticed the other day when I turned off the car, the fan continued to run for about another minute. Then, this morning, I was sitting in the car with it running and temperature gauge went up over the 210 middle mark. On the way home tonight, while sitting at a light, the temperature gauge went up near the 260 mark, the check gauge light went on and once I took off from the light, it went down a bit, but, not back to normal and additionally, the oil gauge went below the middle mark. Never done this before ~ is this a thermostate problem or do I have worse issues?

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The first thing to try is turning the heater upto full heat(a/c off)if the temp guage goes down THEN CHANGE THE THERMOSTAT...(hot oil,if too hot, is thinner than the normal sae rating so the oil pressure will be lower.otherwise no real problem.

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