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Old 07-18-2011, 04:18 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Dale_K
Your Tahoe probably IS air cooled under certain conditions. GM is pretty smart about basic functional stuff and the V8 motors have an emergency cooling mode that functions even if the car looses all the coolant. They turn off the fuel injectors to half the cylinders and the air movement through the motor provides a cooling effect. I think you can drive the car 100 miles without any coolant.

I bet you probably already knew this.
No, I did not know that... That is very interesting. I would not want to test that though.

I changed the water pump because it started leaking a little through the weep hole, I can't stand any kind of drip on my garage floor!
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