A couple of weekends ago I took one of my T-Birds for a long drive to a car show. The weather was hot, and the entry line to get in was long as usual. Bottom line is the engine cut out. Temperature was sitting around the P mark, maybe just above. The engine itself is in good condition as is the cooling system and I run Evans Waterless Coolant in all my cars.
I let it cool down trying to crank it over as it gradually got cooler and not a lot would happen. It was almost similar to a dead battery but everything else electrical worked. Eventually the gauge was down to the E mark and it started up with no issues at all.
Thinking back it has happened once before in exactly the same circumstances some years ago. My question is why would this happen? Its like the engine is protecting itself and I seem to remember someone telling me that the porcelain was on spark plugs so that they could shatter and stop an engine running if it became too hot.
Enlighten me please!
I let it cool down trying to crank it over as it gradually got cooler and not a lot would happen. It was almost similar to a dead battery but everything else electrical worked. Eventually the gauge was down to the E mark and it started up with no issues at all.
Thinking back it has happened once before in exactly the same circumstances some years ago. My question is why would this happen? Its like the engine is protecting itself and I seem to remember someone telling me that the porcelain was on spark plugs so that they could shatter and stop an engine running if it became too hot.
Enlighten me please!
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