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Re: Overheating - general comment

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Subject: Re: Overheating - general comment
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:41:23 -0700
on 8/26/05 10:14 AM, Barrie Robinson at barrie@look.ca wrote:

> I have an Edelbrock 2198 intake manifold and Perma-Cool 2,950 cfm rad
> fan with 'strap-on' temp switch.  Did not like the 'strap-on' as I am
> sure that touchy-up methods are not too reliable (although they
> worked well when I was a single man!).  So I have installed a
> Perma-Cool screw-in temp switch (1/2" 14 NPT) at the horrendous price
> of Cdn$70 on the manifold.  Whether or not this solves my
> splutter-splutter problem is yet to be determined.   The PC one was
> the only one I could find so what other Edel people use is a mystery
> - perhaps they use the hole for temp gauges not on-off switches!
> 
> 
I'm sure you're right. The original applications for that motor used temp
gauges, and had belt-driven fans.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




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