DeTomaso Mailing List: December 97, Message #94
     



From: 	"Don Franck" <panteradon@hotmail.com>

Subject: Re: a different cooling question

Date: 	Mon, 8 Dec 1997 07:30:51 +0000



I to am running two temp guages and have the same difference in the two.  

My block temp is ussually 190-200 untill I get in traffic then it can 

climb to 220-230.  I don't even look at the stock temp guage any longer.



Don Franck 

#1777





>From:	Charlie McCall <charliemccall@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>

>To:	Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>

>Subject: a different cooling question

>Date:	Sat, 6 Dec 1997 20:02:12 +0000

>

>As long as the list is quiet right now with floods, "bantering", and 

the

>like, let me ask a technical question that I asked when I was having 

trouble

>accessing the list and don't think ever made it through.

>

>A couple of months ago I relocated the temperature sensor from the 

pressure

>tank to the block and noticed about a 30-40 degree difference. David 

Doddock

>pointed out that this is most likely not due to the efficient cooling

>capability of the tank, so assuming for the sake of argument that there

>really is a temp difference there must be another reason. I put a 

magnetic

>thermometer on the outside of the tank and it roughly agreed with the 

temp

>gauge when the sendor was locatde on the tank, so I believe there 

really may

>be a big temperature difference.

>

>This difference has been bugging me for a couple months now. Could I 

have a

>partial blockage in the cooling system that would do this? Restrict the 

flow

>of coolant back to the tank? How would I test for this? Have other 

people

>noticed any temperature difference when relocating their sender? I had 

been

>driving confident in the fact that my car ran consistently about 180, 

but

>now it runs consistently at 210 since I relocated it. 

>

>Just wondering if I should be concerned.

>

>Charlie McCall

>1972 Pantera

>Pre-L #3874

>

>

>





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