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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Originally Posted by MB
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.
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