Re: 10V NA temperature info

["Robert A Wheeldon" <robert.a.wheeldon@boeing.com>]

     Chris,
     Your old thermostat was stuck open.  Common failure mode.  Supposedly  
     fail safe mode.  A correctly operating thermostat should maintain more 
     or less the same temperature indication around town and on the 
     highway.  The low highway temp is caused by ram air cooling the 
     radiator more than enough.
     
     Bob Wheeldon
     '90 V8Q


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Subject: 10V NA temperature info
Author:  br00206@binghamton.edu at INTERNET
Date:    9/21/96 9:18 PM


Hey all...
     
A few weeks back, I posted a question regarding the temperature gauge 
reading at which the thermostat opens on the 2.3 I-5.  There seemed to be 
some confusion on what exactly this reading is.  I changed the thermostat on 
my 90 today and, to my suspicion, the old one was opening too soon; hence, 
the engine was running too cold (...duh).  Here is some empirical evidence 
on where exactly a properly-working thermostat will maintain engine (10V NA) 
temperature in relation to the gauge (with NO actual values...what's up with 
that?) itself .  The following depicts the gauge and the arrows denote where 
the needle should roughly be:
     
         |||   |   !   |   |   !   |
          C                        H
                  ^^^^
     
It was nice and warm today and cooled off dramatically tonight; the same 
general readings were obtained around town and on the highway.  With my old 
thermostat, I would get to the 'halfway' mark in traffic and barely out of 
the in the 'C' area on the highway.  HTH someone!
     
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Chris Lemon
br00206@binghamton.edu
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/1710/ 
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