Posted by Ryan (IP: 216.161.165.240) on December 24, 2000 at 02:51:40:
After going to Autozone and compareing water pumps it appears that my 87 5.0 water pump is flowing my coolant backwards. I don't know how I thought that this pump would work, I guess I was in a hurry to get the pulleys on. With the wrong pump I was running around 210 degrees. I thought this was normal because thats what it runs in the summer and I figured that even with the cooler weather the underdriving of the pump would cause it to run that temp still. I ended up getting an 89 crown vic pump, externally it is almost identical to the 87 5.0 pump but it has the correct flowing impeller. I will change the pump out next week and hopefully start running cooler. I am still just glad that my belts stay on now with the serpentine set up. By the way, Thank you Charlie for bringing this to my attention.