When will replacing a thermostat improve cooling?

pabear89 · Aug 5, 2005

10secgoal said:
:worship: Agreed, by far.
I think you are right if he removes the t-stat. 100%. But I also don't think the thing will ever come up to temp even in that heat, at a cruise. But what about the fellow in the other thread ? He fixed his problem. The t-stat was stuck open.

more reason to have a working one in place!

the uneven temp rise through out the cooling system,
the coolant will seek the easiest path to the flow.
Without the restriction of the Stat the coolant will not flow as completely thru all parts of the cooling system with an equal force.
This will creat "Pockets" of lower temp coolant that will cause problems.

PB

ForceFed70 · Aug 5, 2005

65up2d8 said:
However, it sounds like you're saying that you could take a piece of steel and heat it with a torch until its glowing red, then grab it with a set of pliers and dunk it in cool water for one second, and voilla, the piece of steel would be at room temperature and the water would be the hottest it could possibly get.

No, I'm not saying that at all. What I am saying is that if the watter in your bucket was flowing very quickly, it would cool the steel at the same rate (or even quicker) than if it was not moving at all.

Same think would work in reverse... if the water was hot and the steel was cold.

Max Power · Aug 5, 2005

Nice job throwing in the towel, Nitrous!! LOL!

I believe everybody DID choose to listen, just not agree.

ForceFed70 · Aug 5, 2005

Max Power said:
Nice job throwing in the towel, Nitrous!! LOL!

I believe everybody DID choose to listen, just not agree.

Yeah.. funny how hard it is to just "quit" sometimes!

And I agree, my choice of wording was poor.

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