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??

Anyone had this before??

 

Stat in wrong...upside down...?
Seen stranger things...!

 

Ive done stranger things , but it will only go in one way i think.

 

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 gasket I used on the housing is a cometic one, are these reusable or will i need a new one?

 

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

 

where could a man buy a walher stat?

 

Just removed the stat and put the old one back in which turned out to be a WAHLER 88deg stat. Worked perfectly, all back to normal now.

 

Were can I purchase a Wahler one for my 4x4 red top? are there any on the bay (I'm in Malta)? part number maybe?

Thanks m8s