I changed my Thermostat in the winter time to a FailSafe 192° one. Now I notice when my truck is standing still with the A/C on, the needle goes up a hair pass the half mark. I wanna keep it cool. I was told to go down to a 160° Thermostat. Will that Help?? :? It's a 98 Durango, 5.9L, 4x4
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I changed my Thermostat in the winter time to a FailSafe 192° one. Now I notice when my truck is standing still with the A/C on, the needle goes up a hair pass the half mark. I wanna keep it cool. I was told to go down to a 160° Thermostat. Will that Help?? :? It's a 98 Durango, 5.9L, 4x4
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IMHO a 160 will be too cold?
180-185 will work fine.
if this is a 98 or 99, the thermostat won't make much difference (unless it's defective or mis-installed)? these are known to be marginally cooled? make sure your cooling is system clean (should be flushed every 30k miles) and your fan clutch is working properly?
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180-185 will work fine.
if this is a 98 or 99, the thermostat won't make much difference (unless it's defective or mis-installed)? these are known to be marginally cooled? make sure your cooling is system clean (should be flushed every 30k miles) and your fan clutch is working properly?
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It "can" help to a degree (no punn intended.) The thermostat is your "temperature regulator." It opens and allows coolant to flow through the radiator. So if you have a cooler T-stat, it'll open at a cooler temperature and start circulating coolant into the radiator sooner than a hotter one. If the radiator's able to extract that extra heat, then the engine and coolant will run at a lower temperature. Once the radiator can't get rid of the extra heat, you've exceeded the capacity of your cooling system and the thermostat isn't going to make any difference.
Therefore, the T-stat is just one of a few variables that determine what temperature your engine's going to run at. The two other major parts (if everything is working properly) are the radiator and the outside air conditions. Hope that helps.
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Therefore, the T-stat is just one of a few variables that determine what temperature your engine's going to run at. The two other major parts (if everything is working properly) are the radiator and the outside air conditions. Hope that helps.
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Okay, I changed my thermostat to a 82° one and now my temp is very low. Not sure if this is normal but I took a pic so everyone can see its almost at 130. Also my oil gauge is over 40! It usually only goes to 40 when the truck's standing still. I took a picture of that as well.
Okay, I changed my thermostat to a 82° one and now my temp is very low. Not sure if this is normal but I took a pic so everyone can see its almost at 130. Also my oil gauge is over 40! It usually only goes to 40 when the truck's standing still. I took a picture of that as well.
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Agreed. A 180 stat should put you right between (or just a tad below) your needle mark as shown and the 210 mark.FSTDANGO3 said:
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For a 180°, that looks correct as that's what mine reads on a nice 75° day or colder. Above that, and it starts creeping up towards the 210° mark. Oil pressure looks good as well and I think you're fine. On cold days, it may take a little longer to get to the 180° mark but, even when it's been as low as 0°F here in MD, I've never gotten a code for it taking too long to warm up to operating temp.
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OIC. I would have never made the connection. I'd expect that from our Canada pals and others, but from New Jersey?!tomk said:
Never learned much celcius or metric for that matter. Remember when it was a Fed regualtion to have speed signs, etc on highways changed over to the Metric/Km system and only like three states complied with dual signage. We still have Km on the speedos because of that (in the 70s I believe, around the same time they dropped the speed limit down to 55 on highways built for 80 decades earlier.)
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GRRRRRR your D has the temperature markings on it? mine has the "not much better than Idiot light" "C" and "H"
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Those are fine. You can see my readings in this pic taken during operation on the autobahn with a 180° thermostat (4 years old at that!)
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Kevin,Kevin_Rants said:
What dash gauge overlay is that? I like it a lot.
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