I drove the Coke.and my temp gage went over half say 3/4 the way and i didnt have any problems ,i did this for about 2-3k but im sure you wouldnt want to do this for to long,im posting this in regards to Adams previous post about his altinator squealing thing,but i would like to know a safe zone to pull over,it normaly runs way below half on any other long hill.
Rich
I am stable in most situations that I have no reservations in stormy conditions.
TardisDeli Thermostat opens at 82 degrees (correct temp says Butch @CVI during our recent Deli Delight show&tell), fluid colour is good, and more importantly no evidence of corrosion when you look inside the cap to the top of the core.
Our wrong thermostat ran between at 3/4 up the guage, and that is what instantly distressed MardyDelica. And why we got genuine one in December (our Lordco/Napa one supposedly was correct, but the leg wasnt long enuf, and had no spring at the foot).
Now we run with the needle pointing just barely underneath the lower of the 2 watery wavy lines in the icon.
When I drive up steep hills like The Cut (1 km steep hill on highway in North Van), temp doesnt really change, never more than 1/2 way. When we drove recently the Duffy Lake/Lillooett with some long steep hills and lots of camping gear inside in 40 degree heat spell, it got over halfway a few times, but when it got near to 3/4 I pulled over and let engine idle for a few minutes, until it started going down a bit.
My question: Why didnt Changing the heater settings on Deli didnt cause temperature guage to cool down while driving nor while pulled over idling?? 20 years ago, when car ran hot I would push the slider lever over to bring hot air into the passenger area (yes even on hot summer days) which seemed to cause the temp guage to slowly return to normal. Didnt we all do this then, true or false ?
It still works on most cars Christine, probably because it aids the flow of cooling air through the engine. I used to do it on my old nissan when doing shuttle runs up the mountain. It's not going to do a whole bunch, but more just that extra little bit of insurance against overheating.
Thanks Jaz, thanks for agreeing that it does help. I will continue to run the heater into the cabin (even on hot days) to reduce temperature guage, despite Jay of The TardisDeli whining about his legs poached by heater. We did have extremes that day: 40c outside temperature, high elevation, long steep hills, heavy load, plus whiney passenger.
Thanks, Christine.
the reason it works (turning the heat on) is that the heaters are just little radiators, and when you turn the heat on it opens a valve for the hot coolant to flow through them and then you crank up the fan to blow cool air through them, warming the air and cooling the coolant down. It does help in the deli it just takes long to register than one would like I would think. turning the A/C off if it is on helps more though :)
does anyone know if the temp gauge in deli's is ã direct correlation to the engine temp, or "peaked" like in later cars?
I think this q has come up before and I think it was direct, which could explain why you see such ã change when you switch it on, where as with newer cars it doesn't seem to make any difference until the temp gauge suddenly shoots sky high.
Sorry, not up with the ling-go but it did keep my brain working trying to figure out what OAT meant i did however get the AT part correct,if that helps me sound smrter,any ways the temp out side was around 38 in Kamloops and 41ish in Berier wihch is still devastating to look at from the fire of i think 2004, it was hot hot hot,the Deli is still in great running order (knock knock )even after a year of driving and slapping on over 40,000k in that time and im still 100% crazy about The Valley Forge,(my ride)all it needs at this time is some tierod ends which ill be getting soon the temp has never gotten to a point of real concern but just thought to make a mention that they can run fairly hot from time to time without any real concern
Rich .
I am stable in most situations that I have no reservations in stormy conditions.