505 V10
Has Left the Room - Banned from VTCOA!
Since I'm new here, I'll cut you a break lol
Anyway all BS insults aside, for those of interest, here is what I found when hooking up to the scanner.
Truck warmed up as usual,
Fan kicked on high at 212 degrees,
Truck settled at 221-222 degrees,
I saw a peak of 224 for a second.
It stayed there the whole time at idle, actually dropped to 219 during some of the drive.
Cooling system is all fine, no air pockets.
On the dash gauge it was where it always is, which you would interpret as 225-230.
So no surprise, there doesn't seem to be any problem at all. All the previous posts I have seen with people saying there truck runs 195 and 205, etc, they just probably are assuming that. I bet if everybody went out and actually hooked up to something to read the temp that just about all of these trucks would be running consistently at around 220.
Another funny thing is that I could not find anywhere that actually said a specific operating temp number. I checked ALLDATA, Mitchell Prodemand, and identifix (which accesses factory service manuals) and none stated an actual temperature number.
It's your truck, do what you want. However, I would have a concern with any vehicle running that hot.