Just curious as to where everyones stock coolant temp gauge usually resides when they're driving at normal operating temps. I just replaced my thermostat today (old one would never allow the car to get up to normal operating temps) and it seems to rest just north of the half way point.
Not too worried really otherwise I'd put an aftermarket one in just to check....this is more of a curiosity question.
Jason
mine normally sits right at the 195 line, sometimes it is just on the top part of it
195 or a little below for winter time like now.
195 give or take a few degrees
Mine in my 99 Z usually sits between half and 3/4 on the gauge, after wondering about it for years I finally had the chance to hook it up to a scanner/reader and go for a drive, much like I had figured my gauge reads off by about 35-40 degrees F.
thats about where mine sits, then the fan kicks on and it returns to halfway. You can do what im going to do, the cooling fan mod.
scott (section8cav) wrote:if you look in your engine bay there is a black fuse box on the driver side..one of the big relays will be labeled "cooling fan" ...pull that box up and look under it...if you look under the relay on the bottom of the box there should be 4 wires ...3 thick ones and 1 small one..the really small one is a green or light blue color iirc .. just splice into /dont cut/ that wire ..run it to the cabin, hook it to a switch,then run the switch to ground..its that easy...now, when ever the switch is ON the fan will come on..whenever the switch is OFF the fan will work just like its supposed to..cus all your doing is grounding the relay to the fan and making it come on when you hit the switch
mine is in the cluster......................195 or a little lower if a/c is on
I've long had the cooling fan mod done. Seems like most everyones sits at the same point as mine. Thanks for the responses!
195 or slightly (a hair) above when im driving, but when im sitting at a light, it can creep up to the 3/4 line, i hate it and i wish i could change it.
Humm....mine sits between the 1/4 and half....it never goes past the half way mark and when it does the fan kicks on and it goes back down to 1/4....what i done to mine was changed the thermostat and took the radiator out of it and sprayed it down wit water and got all the gunk out of it and reinstalled it wit new radiator fluid...sshh after that it hardly goes past the half way mark, been drivin in cool ever since!
195 on the dot from summer to winter, never gone above the 195 line so far except for when my cooling fan took a @!#$ on me and even then it barely crept over it since it was -20 outside
A hair under 195 normal, 2 bars over 195 sitting still and the fan turns on.
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