[Vwdiesel] VW Diesel engine running too hot

[Jim Arnott]

I started out typing a long detailed response to this post and about  
halfway through, realized that it could all be summed up with Dave  
Akin's first law of spacecraft design:

1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only  
an opinion.

<http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html>

Go get some numbers and we'll have a basis for analysis.

Jim

On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Sherwin Goff wrote:

> Over-heating:
>   Here are the symptom:
>
>   I have a very nice 83 Westy with the 1900 engine and a 5 speed;  
> however, it runs with the needle straight up or even a little to  
> the right of top center. This is too hot. I do not like for it to  
> run this hot. (My 82 also did this same thing, and I experienced  
> early engine failure because of it.)