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Re: Exhaust Gas Temperature Gage

To: WEmery7451@aol.com, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Exhaust Gas Temperature Gage
From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 06:01:51 -0500
Mine also shows no gauge reading at idle. The needles are rather slow to 
respond and take a few seconds to catch up to what's going on in the pipes. 
At full song on a long straight several of us see 1400 - 1450. If it's 
running lean, you'll see 1650 but not for very long.

At 12:09 AM 5/3/2005, you wrote:
>Dear FOT,
>
>I finally got around to installing an exhaust gas temperature gage, with
>sensors in the Number 1 and Number 4 exhaust manifold pipes.  The two 
>scales on
>the gage range from 8 to 16 degrees F, with a 100 multiplier.  At first, the
>gage arrows would not move off of their low points, so the gage may be 
>faulty.
>Then one of the two arrows started to move upscale, with the other one not
>moving at all.
>
>This brings on the following questions:
>
>-Could there be anything else wrong besides the gage being faulty?
>
>-Approximately, what temperatures should I be seeing?
>
>-If the gage were working properly, are we supposed to adjust the mixture to
>the carburetors to obtain nearly equal temperature readings of the two 
>needles?
>
>I have been adjusting the carburetor jets by turning the nuts out a specified
>number of turns, and then using a depth gage to set the jets an equal
>distance down, with the cover, piston, and needles off of the carburetor.

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