DaninLids
Member
Just a quick question around how hot an engine runs before it is too hot and breaks something catastrophic...
So I've got a 1987 90 with a 200tdi Disco engine transplant and I wondered how hot your temperature gauge indicates before you start going into a blind panic? Mine seems to run warm/hot nearly all the time.
Anything over half way on the gauge for me and I'm starting to worry. It tends to get up to this level if it has driven uphill (at all) or with any grunt anywhere. Prolonged standing still (like five mins) also gets a hot engine. You know it's getting warm when it's a ice cold day and your feet feel boiling hot due to the engine warming the bulkhead.
Anyway avoiding the obvious "when it's in the red" - simple as it sounds, how hot is too hot?
So I've got a 1987 90 with a 200tdi Disco engine transplant and I wondered how hot your temperature gauge indicates before you start going into a blind panic? Mine seems to run warm/hot nearly all the time.
Anything over half way on the gauge for me and I'm starting to worry. It tends to get up to this level if it has driven uphill (at all) or with any grunt anywhere. Prolonged standing still (like five mins) also gets a hot engine. You know it's getting warm when it's a ice cold day and your feet feel boiling hot due to the engine warming the bulkhead.
Anyway avoiding the obvious "when it's in the red" - simple as it sounds, how hot is too hot?