- 1. How hot is hot? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!iris.ucdavis.edu!hill@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Rich Hill)
- Date: Tue, 1 May 90 12:32:27 PDT
- My '79 Spridget has an aftermarket temperature guage wwhich is nice in that it is calibrated (rather than just Hot, Cold and Normal) but not nice because I really don't know how hot is too hot for th
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- 2. Re: How hot is hot? (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 1 May 90 16:45:37 EDT
- What sort of thermostat is in your midget? Chances are that it is 180 or so, and that anything below 200 is probably okay, especially since there may be a slight temp difference between the sender an
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00020.html (7,483 bytes)
- 3. Re: How hot is hot? (score: 1)
- Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Tue, 1 May 90 16:04:42 PDT
- Yup, though it's usually more empirical, as in the advice the Healey Store used to give out. We put it in a newsletter column at least once, though it was more simply put. For the record: A 50-50 bl
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- 4. Re: How hot is hot? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Tue, 01 May 90 15:28:42 PDT
- Another thing to consider is the type of thermostat you have. In the TR engine, the original thermostats had a sleeve that would cover the bypass channel when opening the channel to the radiator, ens
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00031.html (7,083 bytes)
- 5. Re: How hot is hot? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!bevsun.bev.lbl.gov!guy@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Aran Guy)
- Date: Wed, 2 May 90 00:53:41 PDT
- My '79 spit has the same engine; it came stock with a 190 degree F. thermostat. The fan comes on at about 200. The fan runs almost continually when outside temp runs above 100. This is ok; the engine
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00038.html (7,506 bytes)
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