Bob,
I guess this proves that all temperature gauges (or senders) are not
created equal. I thought I would have trouble cooling Huxley down after
moving to the desert. But much to my surprise, the gauge sits at about
1/8" to the left of the Normal Range (Jaeger gauge). The only time I
have to turn on the electric fan is when I sit in traffic for an
extended period of time and the sun is beating down.
Joe
Bob Sykes wrote:
>
> 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. [...]
>
> --
> LBC'ing U,
> Bob (& Spitfires)
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