Friday morning, thinking I still am having trouble over heating.

I have a 1999 Ford Ranger ext cab, 6 cyl, 3 liters/ Flex Fuel. Okay since I have had this truck, June 2014. It over heats while driving in slow traffic. Okay at first, I saw junk in the radiator. Now it looked like pieces of small paper. I had it flushed at a shop. The guy told me that he flushed ad least three (3) times and there is still some junk in there. Okay I will give it a try. It still over heated. I took it to a friend (Mike) he looked it over and told me it can be four (4) problem, no maybe five (5).

Fan blade not staying on, thermostat, radiator, water pump or a head gasket.  

So he took a 2x4 (lumber) tried to stop the fan blade. It kept on turning. Then I left there and visited my cousin in Winter Haven. I saw a radiator shop there, in Lakeland. I stopped and told him my problem. He flushed it out with high pressure. 125 psi, air and water. Still junk coming out, but he said that is the best he could do. Plus he took the thermostat out and replaced it. 

I got back home and bought a new radiator, ($125.00) I switched it out at a friends' home (Bill) 

Still over heating. Come on what is going on? 

On Thursday morning I flushed it again. Look at the paper coming out of it. Where is it coming from? How can this still be in here. I have flushed it out ad least 8 times plus. 

Okay I will buy a water pump. 

I bought it and started taking it apart. Roy was right long side of me. I tried for over two hours to get the old one off. I ran into a housing of the air conditioner that has to come off before the water pump will come. There is a bolt holding the pump in place behind the bracket. 

Roy knew I was not making any head way. I kept looking and even watching a video a guy made on how to take it off and replace it. So Roy was telling me about a guy named Mark. He has a auto shop right down the road. So I hopped in his car and we went over to see Mark. He just told me to get it there on Tuesday and he would look at it. So I got back and put it all back together again. It went back together again a lot faster than me taking it apart. 

So today (Saturday) I will take all the hoses off and the thermostat. Just look it over again. This paper has to stop some time. \

I am not sure why, but maybe the guy that had the truck before me had trouble with leaking of something like that. He stuffed paper in the system. 

My prayer it is NOT a head gasket. This is a 6 cyl. 

I don't have any power lost, the engine runs great. Even driving it on 95, no problems at all. The temp stays below the middle of the gauge. Just getting off of 95 and traffic stops, the engine it temp is climbing up. It has gone all the way up to H. But I really am trying to fix the problem.