boeingpilot
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I need to appeal to those wiser than myself - that is to say pretty much everyone on these forums!
My TR4A seems to be running hot, about 3/4 up the scale in top gear cruising on the highway. Around town it climbs about 80 to 90% up the scale. Though it has never pegged on the red, if I continued to operate it I'm afraid it would. It will, however, idle happily on a 100 degree day all day long with out the electric fan ever having to come on.
Here's the catch. While driving, the aux electric fan doesn't come on all the time. I set it to come on at 180F, and I'm running a 160F thermostat. The fan is also designed to operate for 1 minute upon shutdown which it does every time I turn the car off.
I flushed and refilled the radiator, and replaced the thermostat, and the brakes are not binding.
I've heard these temp gauges can be inaccurate. Is there an easy way to tell if it's simply an instrumentation problem? Voltage stabilizer? Bueller?, Bueller?
My TR4A seems to be running hot, about 3/4 up the scale in top gear cruising on the highway. Around town it climbs about 80 to 90% up the scale. Though it has never pegged on the red, if I continued to operate it I'm afraid it would. It will, however, idle happily on a 100 degree day all day long with out the electric fan ever having to come on.
Here's the catch. While driving, the aux electric fan doesn't come on all the time. I set it to come on at 180F, and I'm running a 160F thermostat. The fan is also designed to operate for 1 minute upon shutdown which it does every time I turn the car off.
I flushed and refilled the radiator, and replaced the thermostat, and the brakes are not binding.
I've heard these temp gauges can be inaccurate. Is there an easy way to tell if it's simply an instrumentation problem? Voltage stabilizer? Bueller?, Bueller?