Well heres the deal: I blew a head gasket a few weeks ago, and i put everything back together by myself not really knowing what I was doing. So for the last few weeks I have been fixing stupid little problems here and there. Well the other day I fixed the last of my noticable problems. Then yesterday I get on the freeway and the car starts to get a little hot. (it's the first really hot day of the year...) It normally runs at 185, but now it holds at 210-215 if I stay at about 65, and on hills it goes up to around 230ish. So I get it home and check to see what I can do to help it cool properly, and I remember I never put the plastic defletors back on for the radiator, and I drain what was mostly water in the radiator and put a gallon of anti freeze in.

Do you think that putting in anti freeze and the air deflectors back on will make my cooling poroblems go away?

 

The air deflector beneath the car is a MUST. It directs the air into the radiator as there is almost zero opening in the front. The air deflector should do more for you than anything else. Just curious.... Why did that piece come off?

 

Its not the bottom one that scrapes on everything, I meant the one that sits in front of the A/C condenser(sp?) and the top piece above the radiator...