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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: Rasbo on April 10, 2008, 20:29:27

Title: temp guage
Post by: Rasbo on April 10, 2008, 20:29:27

just swaped a 2.5td to a 300 and noticed the guage reads excessivly low, ran her up the motorway and only just got onto the white area, so are the gauges different of is the 300 very cold running engine?

Title: Re: temp guage
Post by: TDi90 on April 10, 2008, 20:41:05

IIRC they are different guages...

Title: Re: temp guage
Post by: tack43 on April 10, 2008, 20:44:18

Does heater get hot in cab (for a land-rover!). If not check thermostat.

Title: Re: temp guage
Post by: Rasbo on April 10, 2008, 22:52:39

heater works well and thermostats good, that was wy first point of call. no air locks either.

Title: Re: temp guage
Post by: dreadnought110 on April 11, 2008, 17:45:29

Best thing i did was bin the land rover gauge and fitted a VDO gauge now i can see my 300 tdi sit's at 90.c (thermostat opens at 89.c) when she's working hard never goes above 95.c   i had some serious head ache's with Land rover gauge's... :(