This is the Tiger you're having the problem with, not the Alpine, correct?
Jon Arzt
>From: "kreg" <kregkallenberger@home.com>
>Reply-To: "kreg" <kregkallenberger@home.com>
>To: <alpines@autox.team.net>
>Subject: overheating
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:17:17 -0600
>
>Help if you can,
>
>Iv'e been driving a different Sunbeam , actually a Tiger, but I still have
>the
>Series V,the past two days that I do not know the history of but it has
>had a
>rebuild of late on the engine and everything seems fine except- When I
>slide
>the heater control from off over to hot to use the heater or defroster the
>engine temp guage jumps up like a rocket. The engine temp is fine until I
>slide the heater control from "0ff".
>
>I always thought that if your engine was overheating you should turn the
>heater on - that is to say open the heater control valve. This is just the
>opposite. Since this a new car to me I was wondering if anyone had a guess
>where to start to diagnose this situation. I can drive around all day with
>no
>overheating otherwise. Maybe the thermostat is in backwards or something.
>I
>am stumped- but it is not the first time.
>
>?????
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