Re: IML: thermostats

["Klebert L. Hall" <crocuta@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   I have found that lower temperature thermostats are an enormous aid 
to a standard problem of big-block engines in hot weather - heat soak. 
If you're driving in mixed highway/city conditions with a high thermal 
load on the engine, when you get off the highway and immediately get 
stuck in gridlock, engine temperature skyrockets - on the highway, the 
thermostat was closed because of high engine-compartment air exchange, 
which is now no longer happening. In this circumstance, opening the 
thermostat wider, sooner, keeps peak temps down.

   Another thing which helps for this is an auxiliary electric fan.

     -Kle.
     '69 Crown 4DHT (temporarily moribund)


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