water temperature

[Steve Jones]

Several friends fitted temperature gauges to their cars last year - both experienced alarm at how high the car ran.  

Neither had anxiety before the gauges were installed.

In another thread last night I referred to the P Type Lea Francis I used to own. These have Meadows 4ED engines that tend to run a touch on the warm side anyway and the Calormeter on the radiator always showed a reading that was a bit higher than I would like although the engine never boiled in normal use. Eventually, for other reasons, the time came for a new radiator and once fitted, I assumed, as a by-product, the car would run a little cooler. Made no difference. I removed the Calormeter. The problem went away. 

Steve