gauges/electric fan/thermostat ?

[sgarlic]

A year or so ago, I tried putting white faced gauges on my cluster. Having never done this before, I thought I could just remember the needle positions, and consequently screwed the needle positions all up when I reinstalled it all.

In the meantime, a service station changed my thermostat. While I asked them to install a 180 degree thermo, my hunch is they installed a 160. It ran at the O in normal with the old thermo, and now runs at the A. I just picked up a 3.8 taurus fan and am going with the dcc control FK-35 to control it.

My question is, knowing the temp. gauge is probably wrong, what should I set the controller at if I'm not sure whether it's 160 or 180? Also, is there any way to fix the needle positions or am I pretty much stuck with having to buy a new gauge cluster?

 

[HISSIN50]

A year or so ago, I tried putting white faced gauges on my cluster. Having never done this before, I thought I could just remember the needle positions, and consequently screwed the needle positions all up when I reinstalled it all.

In the meantime, a service station changed my thermostat. While I asked them to install a 180 degree thermo, my hunch is they installed a 160. It ran at the O in normal with the old thermo, and now runs at the A. I just picked up a 3.8 taurus fan and am going with the dcc control FK-35 to control it.

My question is, knowing the temp. gauge is probably wrong, what should I set the controller at if I'm not sure whether it's 160 or 180? Also, is there any way to fix the needle positions or am I pretty much stuck with having to buy a new gauge cluster?

there is a way to recalibrate the gauges - not sure of anyone in town that does it though.

i would recommend a real temp gauge - in the heat around here one really needs to keep an eye on the temps. the stocker is simply not calibrated enough to interpolate anything, nor make any determinations based on its reading (IMHO).
for a quality stat (if wanting to know what is in there), i might get a Mr Gasket stat.

for the controller: Mr Baskin might have some ideas. i might use an infrared thermometer to set it (if using a 180 stat, i might set it at 195-200 on/185-190 off). or just play with it (you might need to tweak it next summer anyhow).

good luck.