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Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
While moving air is helping cool the engine and coolant before it goes back into your engine.
While you're going uphill, there is more load on the engine than if you are on a flat road. So your engine is working harder to get up the hill which in turn is producing more heat. And if your coolant is that hot your fans should be on even if the A/C off.
Wish I could diag this car in person.
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I ran a block test on it today and block testing fluid did not change color so as far as I can tell the head gasket is fine, while I had the coolant partially drained I decided to take a look and see if coolant was flowing as it should with the thermostat open....as far as I could tell the coolant wasn't really flowing so much as it was just collecting in the fill neck even after revving the engine up to about 2500rpm....seems like pressure just builds in the system, but coolant isn't really flowing much.