- Jun 16, 2003
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k, well here we go. Haven't posted much about this but I have been having cooling problems.
BeCool aluminum radiater
Stock stang t-stat (195* I believe)
electric fan etc etc.
Autometer gauges
k, when I drive it the temp climbs like normal (about 5 miles and it is at 190 on the gauge), but it keeps climbing till it hits 230* and then holds (appears to anyway) so I have checked everything I can think of, t-stat is opening, hoses are new and don't appear to be collapsing, etc etc. So I was talking to a buddy at work and he suggest hitting it with a ifrared therometer and see where everything is so I drive it and bring it up to temp today and here is what I see
Upper hose - 192*
radiater upper part - 190*
radiator mid/lower - 182*
radiater lower (hard to shoot so not sure) - 180*
t-stat housing - 203*(but I only shot it for about 5 seconds before the batteries died in the thermometer.
Now here is my question, anybody have any experiances with the autometer's reading wrong? based on the measurements I took and the fact that the thermometer is supposed to be correct (always been dead on when it was checked) everything looks decent but this is killing me.
so opinions please.
BeCool aluminum radiater
Stock stang t-stat (195* I believe)
electric fan etc etc.
Autometer gauges
k, when I drive it the temp climbs like normal (about 5 miles and it is at 190 on the gauge), but it keeps climbing till it hits 230* and then holds (appears to anyway) so I have checked everything I can think of, t-stat is opening, hoses are new and don't appear to be collapsing, etc etc. So I was talking to a buddy at work and he suggest hitting it with a ifrared therometer and see where everything is so I drive it and bring it up to temp today and here is what I see
Upper hose - 192*
radiater upper part - 190*
radiator mid/lower - 182*
radiater lower (hard to shoot so not sure) - 180*
t-stat housing - 203*(but I only shot it for about 5 seconds before the batteries died in the thermometer.
Now here is my question, anybody have any experiances with the autometer's reading wrong? based on the measurements I took and the fact that the thermometer is supposed to be correct (always been dead on when it was checked) everything looks decent but this is killing me.
so opinions please.