Spitfliers,
[ob Spit content]
I'd take what you read in the Haynes Manual (especially the blue one)
with a grain of salt. The owner's handbook states:
"When the ignition is switched on, the pointer moves slowly across the
dial,
taking up to one minute to reach a steady reading.
Normal operating temperature is reached when the pointer registers in
the
central sector of the dial. Should the pointer reach the highest mark,
stop
the engine immediately [...] "
This is where my car(s) run, and have from new. Extended high speed
runs or
lots of sitting at intersections in the summer will nudge them up to the
third mark. We begin to sweat (literally) if the guage rises much more.
On the few occasions that I've "boiled over" the guage pegged firmly
first.
Of course, as always YMMV
[BW remarks]
In addition to "me too" on the signal/noise ratio, I'd like to expand on
what's been said in the name of we "digest impaired". I ask that those
who have their mailers set to automatically quote, please trim the
excess
from the bottom of their messages. A lot of messages have only 1 or 2
lines of "new" content. We digesters then have to scroll through dozens
of lines of old stuff we've already read, regurgitated up to seven times
in some messages. I'm sure I miss new messages while trying to navigate
through the sea of "> > > > > > 's".
Watch! :-)
Tom Ambrose wrote:
> On page 80 of the Haynes Manual, it states, "...with the engine at
> normal operating temperature, the temperature gauge needle will be
> at three quarters of the way across the dial towards HOT." [...]
Ben Bacon wrote:
> > I'm a fairly new spitfire owner having purchased a 79 spit in non running
> > condition two months ago. I've been driving it for about two weeks. I've
> > noticed that the engine temperature gauge usually runs towards or at the
> > third tic mark (3/4 hot ).
> >
> > This seems a bit hot to me but don't know what's normal. [...]
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LBC'ing U,
Bob (& Spitfires)
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