Re: IML: thermostats

["Rob van der Es" <r.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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