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Heat issue

Tiny
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I drive a '94 Ford Ranger, which has a 3.0 V6 Engine and 198,000 miles. Recently, I blew a freeze plug and had to replace it. I hadn't noticed that the temperature was high on the dash guage, so I replaced my thermostat as well as the freeze plug. I put a fail safe thermostat in and since then have not been able to get the heat to work more than slightly above luke-warm. Prior to this my heat worked terrific and it would allow the temperature in the truck to be quite warm. Would simply replacing the thermostat be the reason that heat doesn't work anymore?
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 AT 11:59 AM

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Tiny
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Does the temp gauge run where it did in the first place. If so then you might have an airpocket in the heater core.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 AT 4:37 PM
Tiny
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The tempature guage used to sit in the middle of cold and hot. Now the temperature guage is all the way down on cold.
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 AT 5:02 PM
Tiny
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Take that t-stat out and install a factory 195 one
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007 AT 3:57 PM

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