4kq bad mileage

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Wed Jan 30 21:27:15 EST 2002


At 9:04 PM -0500 1/30/02, Huw Powell wrote:

>I'd just hate to get caught in traffic and watch the temp rising,
>rising, rising, as the engine valiantly tries to cool itself off by
>trying to draw air through the restriction.
>

oh, absolutely, that was my worry too and the reason for the "really
cold climate" comment and my encouragement to slowly start out etc.
You're probably right.

I've noticed recently that the 200's temp drops dramatically at
highway speed occasionally, so I might have my own sticking t-stat...

B
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