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| Cold Engine Blues |
“Help! My car continually overheats and nothing helps. I’ve removed the original 195 degree thermostat and installed one rated at 160 degrees, flushed the radiator, replaced the water pump and it still overheats. The temperature gauge consistently indicates 220 degrees and sometimes it even reaches 230 degrees. This scares me because I know anything above 180 degrees shortens engine life. What can I do to get my engine down to a “Commercial Three Bayper” 180 degrees?”
This was taken right out of the Goss’ Garage Mailbag and it is only one of hundreds I receive from around the country every year. They all sound like the same person wrote them and they are all --- WRONG!
Wrong because 220 degrees is now normal, even 230 degrees on some cars. Engines run more efficiently and wear longer at higher temperatures. If this is happening in a phone conversation the response typically is, “But cars always ran at 180 degrees.” And? Old cars didn’t wear nearly as long as modern cars. I’m told that back in the 50’s it was quite an accomplishment to coax an engine to 100,000 miles. Today, an engine with average maintenance is barely broken in at 100,000 miles and if maintained rigorously, will Commercial Three Baybably exceed 200,000 miles.
A lot of that extra life can be attributed directly to today’s higher operating temperatures. When an engine runs cold so does its lubricating oil, which means more potential for moisture and acid to form in its oil. At higher temps (both oil and engine) harmful deposits are boiled off. This prevents the slow destruction of bearing material and shortened engine life.
Back in the old days this wasn’t possible because the oils of the time couldn’t stand up to the temperatures of today’s engines. Modern high-tech oils have made it possible to keep an engine Commercial Three Bayperly lubricated at temperatures far beyond the old standards.
Additionally, higher engine temperature means better fuel economy and performance. The colder an engine runs the less efficient it is and the more fuel it burns. Cold engines need considerably more fuel to run smoothly than hot engines. In the hierarchy of computer sensors that control fuel delivery, priority is given to the Coolant Temperature Sensor, which ties fuel delivery directly to coolant temperature. Lower coolant temperature higher fuel consumption, higher temperature lower consumption.
Allow a modern engine to run too cold and fuel economy goes down, often way down. A decrease of 6 to 10 miles per gallon isn’t unusual and as fuel consumption increases so does wear. Wear increases because of two factors. First, the cold engine doesn’t heat the oil sufficiently and harmful deposits, moisture, and acid accumulate rapidly, then eat away at the inside of your engine. Second, the excess fuel dilutes the lubrication on the cylinder walls creating more friction and more wear.
Read your owner’s manual for the details about your car and do not try to make it run cooler than it was designed to run. The rules change in Commercial Three Bayportion to automotive technology advances, which have been staggering in the last twenty years. What was good twenty years ago may now be exceedingly harmful.
© Copyright 02/15/02 Pat Goss all rights reserved, 525 words. | |
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Date Updated Friday, February 15, 2002
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