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Hello all, I'm trying to determine whether my temp reading is good/correct. First of all, I have established that I trust my temp gauge. (See thread https://www.triumphexperience.com/phorum/read.php?8,4159 I hope it's ok to refer to posts on another forum here) I think the gauge is good, but I'm still scratching my head a little bit.
<span style="font-weight: bold">1. What is the typical running temp of a 1500?</span> Once mine warms up in the first place, it's almost always dead on the second mark on the gauge. Which I have determined to be right around 150F. I'd always heard that spits tended to run hot...not apparently true in my case. Although I have yet to run it hard on a 90-100 degree day, I've run it in all weather from 50 to the upper 80s. Town, highway, whatever. I'm always within a needle's width of that second mark.
Drove the spit to work the other day and the temp had dropped to freezing overnight. Nice and frosty in the morning. Figured it was a good opportunity to see how the car ran if I covered about half of the radiator with cardboard. Drove it 30 minutes to work, still right on that second mark. Heater works well enough. By the time I drove home temp had got up to the low 60's and sunny. Put the top down but decided to keep the radiator half covered and watched the dial close. Still right on that second mark all the way home.
<span style="font-weight: bold">2. Is it reasonable to expect this little engine to run at such a consistent temp?</span> Like I said, I trust the gauge. I figure the sender either works or doesn't, and I used the same sender in my boiling kettle test.
<span style="font-weight: bold">3. Is this temp actually low for optimum power and efficiency?</span> Could there be a t-stat issue? If it isn't broke, I don't want to break it. But I'm really second guessing things.
<span style="font-weight: bold">1. What is the typical running temp of a 1500?</span> Once mine warms up in the first place, it's almost always dead on the second mark on the gauge. Which I have determined to be right around 150F. I'd always heard that spits tended to run hot...not apparently true in my case. Although I have yet to run it hard on a 90-100 degree day, I've run it in all weather from 50 to the upper 80s. Town, highway, whatever. I'm always within a needle's width of that second mark.
Drove the spit to work the other day and the temp had dropped to freezing overnight. Nice and frosty in the morning. Figured it was a good opportunity to see how the car ran if I covered about half of the radiator with cardboard. Drove it 30 minutes to work, still right on that second mark. Heater works well enough. By the time I drove home temp had got up to the low 60's and sunny. Put the top down but decided to keep the radiator half covered and watched the dial close. Still right on that second mark all the way home.
<span style="font-weight: bold">2. Is it reasonable to expect this little engine to run at such a consistent temp?</span> Like I said, I trust the gauge. I figure the sender either works or doesn't, and I used the same sender in my boiling kettle test.
<span style="font-weight: bold">3. Is this temp actually low for optimum power and efficiency?</span> Could there be a t-stat issue? If it isn't broke, I don't want to break it. But I'm really second guessing things.
Not enough, believe you me.