Quote Originally Posted by MB View Post
Haven’t driven the old family GU faithful truckster for a little while now as was away working with the GQ almost as much loved kettle up north until this warming last weeks home. Scored a 39C ambient GU temp test day yesterday for a blast up our home test hill still on the Russian 88C winter TS as installed before.

Finally managed to sneak a new 2019 record of 99C on this hill top once eased off the peddle with heatsoak and it blipped up there for a fleeting full open few seconds before back to old 76.5C TS same same too max of 98C summer found for us last year on the brand new then OEM radiator.

Best I can nuffy understand from findings now is that regardless of purchased OEM thermostat settings the summer time ‘max’ temps in this wagon don’t seem to alter although the rest of the years warmer and down to seriously colder ambient temps hug so so much closer to healthier running temps of 88C + I smell and find much betterer :-)
Really keen for anyone please to trial the OEM 82C (apparently Aussie manual spec) version to see if they can achieve similar‘stability’ instead of huge ‘fluctuations’ as what originally did scared me and these beloved donks we have!
IMHO now: “It’s all in our cooling systems overall health”
~MB :-)






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Hey mate, you know how your a bloody rippa Bloke. Did you by chance fit the Black control box for your gauge is an easily accessible location? Yesterday during the install i accidentally closed the bloody drivers door while the loom was hanging out and destroyed the black plug that goes into the black box. damn it. Looking like it is not available and i need to make something work. I was at Gauge Works Geelong today hoping i could just buy a black plug and re-pin it but no joy. He said it may well be a common plug for the back of a stereo and suggesting i go to a wrecker and see if i can find something to suire and then re-pin it.

I really need a couple of photos of it to be honest. and also very important, i need a good photo of the pin layout so i can re-pin it. I think it is a 4 wire but 8 pin connection.

In fact anyone with a Redarc 3 way gauge like this i would appreciate any help you have. Will make a call to Redarc tomorrow but not sure they will help. Surely im not the first person to do this. To my astonishment the plug is made from a very brittle hard plastic rather than a Urethane Resin and has just disintegrated.