[Vwdiesel] Cooling issues

[Mark Shepherd]

How are you measuring this temperature increase? Have you eliminated
loading on the system voltage?
Miser
----- Original Message -----
From: Rudy <petersenrudy at hotmail.com>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 7:20 PM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Cooling issues


> My 1984 Jetta runs about 20 degrees warmer when I have the lights and or
> wipers on (Seattle), I've watched this and its consistent.
>
> Thought maybe it was the alternator water pump belt but the power
steering
> belt is tight and can't slip, they both power the water pump.
>
> I'm wonder if the added load on the alternator could make that much
> difference in the running temp or does something sound not right?  I saw
> some posts about this a little while back but can't find them now or
don't
> know how to find them I should say.  Anybody have any thoughts on this?
>
> Rudy
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