Are these thermostats from Rusty? The good "made in France" ones? There Chinese
ones are crap, absolute waste of time.
See my other post but I think the big reason for not blocking the radiator is
that something is wrong with the cooling system. Your symptoms don't make any
sense to me. Run petro diesel for a week while its cold out to verify that the
car absolutely doesn't behave like you say...
On my morning commute today I had full temp in 3 miles. Ambient temp was 16F.
Return trip I have to get on the highway within a mile of startup, I had full
temp in 2.5 miles, ambient temp 24F. Based on that I'm sticking to there being
something wrong with your car. The bioD argument just doesn't make sense to me.
Granted there are loads of things that don't make sense to me but still.
I kind of wish there was a bio pump somewhere handy, I'd spend the extra cash
to see if my car did the same thing.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:44:56 -0800
From: ernest breakfield <erne...@backyardengineering.org>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] running temps in the cold? (was: Re: glowing in the
cold)
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hi Curt!
yep; gauge seems to work fine, and no disparities when checked with
a laser thermometer. operating temps with #2 fuel in more temperate
weather are pretty much what we'd expect.
like i said; once it's on the highway for a while, it reads like you
say yours does; just over the 80C mark... just takes a good long while
to get all the way up there when running BioD.
cabin heat seems pretty adequate (Climate Control does a pretty good
job of taking care of that). doesn't start making any heat until the
engines got some, but that seems consistent with what it was designed to do.
concerns with running it below target temp are related to poorer
combustion/power/shifting/fuel economy, and the fact that if it doesn't
get up to temp it never evaporates the water that condenses into the
oil, resulting in the formation of acids and higher contaminants. (i
change the oil every 3K anyway because of what the BioD does to it, but
i'd prefer to try to keep the odds stacked more in my favor.)
i guess what i'm looking for is to see if there's any good reason
*not* to block off some of the airflow,...?
cheers!
e
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