hope you can see the pic as ive had problems here before with them. as you can see the flow through the radiator is virtually non existent . car does not over heat on a journey and non of the warning lights come on . has a new aluminum radiator , water pump , fresh coolant , working thermostat and as far as I can tell no blockages although it looks like it might . after a drive the top hose gets hot like it should but the bottom hose which has a spring in it is soft and barely warm when I touch it . ive burped the air out the system also . its a factory 455 . so now I really don't know where to go from here any help guys thanks .
Get a Temp gauge and see what the temp are. I dont see green coolant in your picture look kinda brown which is not a good thing.
Only if the radiator is mostly full and the thermostat is open. I can't tell anything from that picture.
IF (big IF) you have a proper overflow bottle and the sealed rad cap to go with it...that radiator has low fluid level. Should be up to the top of the overflow tube. IF (big IF) you DON'T have an overflow bottle, the fluid level is a little low. There's probably a coolant level mark embossed in the tank a few inches below the filler neck.
I did try posting a video but didn’t work . Thermostat was open and I was about to start filling the rad up when I noticed this
You CANNOT post videos on V8. What you need to do is host it on a site like Youtube and then link it here. Very simple to do. You have a cross flow radiator. If the radiator is low, you may not see anything coming out of the tubes you can see, BUT, coolant may still be flowing below that level. It seems to me you are looking for a problem that isn't there. The engine would overheat.
Well that explains it if it’s below the level like you said . I took the car on a 20 minute drive at 55mph and no over heating when I parked
Looks like its flowing to me. The liquid isn't going to flow above its own level. In other words the hot side isn't going to be higher than the cooled side that we're looking at, it flows straight across. So if that's where the level is that's where the coolant is flowing. Look closely and you can see the liquid moving at its level.
Yea I see that now, thanks . Guess I was even more concerned after seeing how the lower hose was hardly warm after a drive