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Originally Posted by buffon01 (Post 622362)

Fans are set to 180*. The belt snapped as right before the cop pulled me over. I talked for about 2-3 minutes or so. then I drove the car about 100 meters to my house. At that moment the temps read 240*

Well hopefully you did not mess up anything with the water temps getting that hot. Basically since you had no alternator belt, the water pump was not spinning and flowing water. So the water in the block heated up. If the needle in the cluster did not get above 12 I think you should be good. I would figure out why the alternator belt broke though. Probably because it was on to tight or old.

If you need a new block like the one post shoot me a pm.