Tony,
At 10:45 15/05/98 -0400, you wrote:
>P.S. There can be TOO much cooling. There is an optimum
>operating temperature of an engine.
Indeed. I had to remove a siezed thermostat from my Mazda 808 during a drive
through the Rocky Mountains (Vancouver to Calgary), in early autumn. At
night, I had to be going up-hill fast, or at least 70 mph on the level, or
the engine would get too cold and stall. I switched it off going down each
hill, and started it in 4th, using the choke, at the bottom. For 6 hours.
As an aside, my thermostat housing had cracked when I tried to fit a
thermostat that the dickhead owner of a crappy garage, 40 miles from nowhere
(well, Cache Creek - same dif), insisted would fit. I patched it with
silastic, and it was still holding one week and 400 miles later. I can't
recommend a better all-purpose glue and leak-repairer than silastic; you
should carry a tube of it at all times! (In the car, that is.)
Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
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