OK, I lost track of the original post, but I thought I would put my two cents
in. When I drove my 1978 MGB home for the first time, the temp gauge
immediately moved up into the H zone. Car seemed OK, and the electric fans
came on,
so I kept driving it with the heater cranked up on high (a mini radiator).
Now, once home I took a small cooking thermometer and tie-wrapped it to the
upper heater hose. It read around 180-200 degrees, so I figured I was OK. So
I drove it quite a bit while ignoring the temperature gauge.
After posting my problem, someone on the list suggested it was probably the
temp sender. After replacing the sender - the problem was fixed!
May all our problems be so simple.
donny v
1978 MGB
In a message dated 8/11/2005 10:53:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dcouncill@msubillings.edu writes:
Yes, this was similar to my experience. So the first question I would ask in
the case of the temp gauge reading high - is the car really overheating or is
the gauge reading high?
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