Re: IML: 1960 gauge/personality notes

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I understand your point of view with regard to the 
> temp issue, but maybe 
> you
> can make another thing clear to me.
> What was the the default OEM thermostat type that
> was fitted when our 1960
> Imperials leaved the factory?
> I thought it was 180F 


I do not know why going to a 180 from a 160 would have
solved your problems.

If swapping thermostats out were a popular solution to
a problem, don't you think you'd have heard about it? 
I have heard about rejetting carbs based on higher
altitude as an ajustment, and a few other things like
using anti-freeze or electrical block heaters where it
is cold, but I have not heard or read of different
regions needing different thermostats.  

Therefore, I think that someone made a mistake and put
the wrong one in your car and that the 180 one is
different and you're now back to where you should be
(good news!)

If you look at the booklets, you'll see what I was
hoping you'd notice:  160 units are explicitly
specified for 413 engines in trucks with
thermostatically operated shutters on the grille.

180 is the only item I've ever heard about for
Imperial, but I don't know THAT much about it.

When a thermostat opens, it allows flow.  
If a thermostat opens at a lower temp, that should not
make the car run cooler is my thought, but I am not
well qualified to say.  

Perhaps the overall diameter of the different units is
different and the 160 flows more per minute for
industrial trucks that are presumed to be generating
more heat?  

Once at operating temperature with the thermostat all
the way open, a 160 or 180 that's all the way open and
is the same diameter should yeild the same amount of
coolant flow, with perhaps the 160 yeilding MORE
cooled water through, since it stays open longer,
shutting only once the water has dropped back down
below 160.  Full flow is full flow, and once you're at
200+, they both flow the same, since they're both
open.  

Does that make sense to you?

I don't know.  Since the stock unit corrected things,
perhaps this isn't all that important to research
anymore.

Did I mention that Chrysler was known for great
engineering and that putting things back to how they
came sure does seem to solve a lot of problems?

 

Kenyon Wills
 
 





















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