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- From: amiller@almaden.ibm.com (Alex Miller)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: Keeping Your Watercooled VW cool.
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:37:28 -0600
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- blu@cellar.org (Dan Reed) writes:
-
- > The idea behind this mod, is that it gets your car to warm up, as normal,
- > then operating temp, THEN lets it get no higher than that. . . .
-
- I don't understand how your FAN knows how to cool exactly enough
- so your car doesn't get above some "normal" temperature.
-
- > Before the mod,
- > in the summer, my car would run up to 220Deg (just above the LED), now with
- > the mod in the winter, it gets to 190 (180 Deg thermostat). Warm-up time is
- > about the same....
-
- Do you mean that the fan thermoswitch lets your coolant heat up
- to 220Deg, but if you keep the fan on continuously it will
- maintain a temperature that is exactly 10 degrees hotter than
- thermostat?
-
- I'm lost, but fortunately my life is much simpler. When my car
- is hot the fan comes on. When it is normal (or cool) the fan is
- off. The water temp gauge in my instrument pod is a meaningless
- guess-o-matic with a few uncalibrated bars of red on the
- righthand side. A separate VDO water temp gauge is connected to
- a sender mounted on top of the thermostat housing. I tested the
- gauge in boiling water so I think it's accurate enough for my
- purposes. With my 180deg thermostat and large oil cooler, the
- only time I EVER overheated was when I forgot to re-connect the
- electrical connector to the fan.
-
- (hey... can we talk about electric engine pre-lubers now??)
-
- Alex
- amiller@almaden.ibm.com
-