Re: IML: thermostats
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Re: IML: thermostats



Hi Klebert,

"  If you're driving in mixed highway/city conditions with a high thermal
load on the engine, when you get off the highway and immediately get stuck in gridlock, engine temperature skyrockets"

That is exactly the probleme I discovered in California 2 summers ago when I bought the car in Rio Linda.
Lucky enough the previous owner had also added an auxilary electric fan!
Great help when things get really hot :)

Only backdraw, it comes to auction AFTER the temp has skyrockets..

Rob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Klebert L. Hall" <crocuta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: IML: thermostats


I have found that lower temperature thermostats are an enormous aid to a standard problem of big-block engines in hot weather - heat soak. If you're driving in mixed highway/city conditions with a high thermal load on the engine, when you get off the highway and immediately get stuck in gridlock, engine temperature skyrockets - on the highway, the thermostat was closed because of high engine-compartment air exchange, which is now no longer happening. In this circumstance, opening the thermostat wider, sooner, keeps peak temps down.

   Another thing which helps for this is an auxiliary electric fan.

     -Kle.
     '69 Crown 4DHT (temporarily moribund)


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