New user, looking for very high temp thermostat.

[moparRnocer]

I bought my 04 tahoe a couple months back with ton of problems and have slowly fixed most all of them, but I'm still fighting with one. When I bought it, it had a cracked radiator. As a auto tech I replace plenty of crappy and plastic radiators so I decided to buy an all aluminum radiator off ebay (If you do triple check to make sure it has the same options as yours) and it fit great but... it's massive and will not let the cooling system to fully heat up, I've put a 180 degree thermostat in it and it help but still doesn't get above 170, I was hoping one of you fine people knew the where abouts of a very high temp thermostat. Thanks for your time, I hope yall have a wonderful day.

 

[Fless]

Welcome to TYF from Colorado.

OE thermostat temp is 186 or 187°.

Lots of us have had trouble with aftermarket radiators not having the proper restriction in the radiator fitting for the small hose that goes back to the surge tank. Take a quick read through the thread below and let us know what you end up doing.

2004 Tahoe operating temp issue.

So i've had my tahoe for just over a year, it has 107K now. Ever since i've had it, it has trouble warming up. Anything starting around 40 degrees or lower, it takes about 5 miles to get to operating temp, and this is also letting it warm up for at least 5 minutes. At idle it will never get to...

www.tahoeyukonforum.com

 

[RAMurphy]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Miami-Dade]

Welcome from Miami Beach!

Moved you over here.