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took the cossie out this afternoon, and todays fault is the temperature gauge
Sitting in traffic the gauge reads normal, but when driving the thing it barely gets off the bottom, and if I drive it from cold, it barely moves at all until it stands still for 5 mins. When I get to a giveway, the revs are sitting at 1200rpm (cold idle) once the gauge moves up, the revs drop to 900rpm. Now im thinking the car thinks its cold and is raising the idle. Its started since I fitted a thermostat from Burton Power last week. So im thinking the stat is stuck open and isnt holding any water in the head??
Correct, it sounds as if the stat is stuck open or something else to do with it's wrong hence it never reaches the optimum temp, I assume it's the 82 degree stat you have brought?
Correct, it sounds as if the stat is stuck open or something else to do with it's wrong hence it never reaches the optimum temp, I assume it's the 82 degree stat you have brought?
Martin
Thought so.... No I ordered a standard stat from Burton and it came in a QH box. The old one worked fine, but while changing the thermostat gasket, I thought it would be workwhile changing the stat. So the moral of the story is...................... if it aint broke....
The COMETIC foam/alloy one is re-useable, mine been on off around 10 times.
The moral of the story is use WAHLER thermostats, cost about Ł9 each but work ace.
tabetha
25-04-2011, 08:19 PM
And todays fault is ......
