At 02:31 PM 1/13/97 -0600, David Bayer wrote:
>>|  how hot on the temp guage should my 82 vanagon diesel register??
>>| 
>>| ..it goes up just past the little redlight (about 1/2 way ) and
stays...no 
>>| matter if your sitting still or running down the road....when i
replaced the 
>>| engine i placed new thermostat and attemped to blead the radiator.
>
>That is where my new thermostat sits as well... Scared the hell out of me
that
>I had put it in upside down or something on my test drive because my temp
>gauge used to sit right above the white block marker and if I turned on
>the heater when it was cold out, I could make the needle plumet down into
that
>white block. It was nice to have heat in the mountains with the new
thermostat.
>
>dave
>
That's where mine stays also. I have, on a long trip in the summer, after a
long highway run, while stopping to pee, got the radiator fan to turn on.
But I had to sit in the van and rev it up a bit because if I didn't it
wasn't gonna go up on the gauge.
Greetings from Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt
jdiebolt@up.net