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Originally Posted by Larry Navarro
removing the thermostat has negative effect. Water is circulated to fast to allow for optimum heat transfer as it passes through the radiator.
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Hi Larry,
I guess I'm just plain stupid here, & I don't get it...!
Following along with what you said (above), once the thermostat DOES open up --- no matter WHAT its temperature rating might be --- won't the coolant STILL "...circulate too fast to allow for optimum heat transfer" through the rad, as you describe...? And then at that point won't the temperature simply continue to rise, higher & higher...?
The DIS-ADVANTAGE to HAVING a thermostat under those conditions is that the coolant temperature will have been given an opportunity to reach 160F, 180F, 195F --- whatever --- BEFORE being allowed to at last move through the system...where it would do little good, by your explanation...
I'm NOT trying to be a smart-alec here, or anything like that, at all --- I'm just trying to get a logical handle on this so that even I might understand it (you see, my '78 T/A runs a tad too hot for my liking, too).
Eddy
Ontario, CANADA