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running hot woes pt.3 120-130

posted by  Sil on  Mon Jun 27 10:43 CST 2005
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Rus,
Since you have not told us that your radiator is actually boiling over, I share Patrick's suspicion that you have a gauge, rather than a cooling, problem. If you haven't done the thermometer test that Lee (and I ealier) suggested, you can't really know what is going on. Lee says 190°, I said 195° which may be a bit high, but is the temperature at which a 180° thermostat should be wide open and still an acceptable operating temperature. On my 142 the needle sits usually 4/5 to the red and sometimes in it, but the actual coolant coming back from the block is usually at 185° and never goes beyond 190°.
Bob S.






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