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mason query?

Post by steviebongo » Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:11 pm

I have just fitted a mason and i know that they make the needle sit higher up but mines seem's to sit at aboot 2 o'clock on the motor way and rises up a bit too close for my liking,no water loss or running issues with tha van, sum advice please.



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Re: mason query?

Post by mikexgough » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:05 pm

Fitted mine today and even on a run up the A1M it went only to 12:30.......strange at first but at least it reads okay now :D
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Re: mason query?

Post by missfixit70 » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:20 pm

It's a very vague way to describe the needle movement, referring to the clock, as different people could read it differently. In relation to the needle being vertical & the white mark at the end of the scale where is it? ie halfway across, 3/4 of the way across?
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Post by haydn callow » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:28 pm

It would suggest to me that the one that sits at 12.30 has a good clean cooling system and the one that sits at 2.30 (thats what the China man said to the dentist) has a dirty/clogged cooling systen or a lazy thermostat.
2.30....get it ??
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Re: mason query?

Post by mikexgough » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:29 pm

missfixit70 wrote:It's a very vague way to describe the needle movement, referring to the clock, as different people could read it differently. In relation to the needle being vertical & the white mark at the end of the scale where is it? ie halfway across, 3/4 of the way across?
Must be a bloke thing Kirsty...... :lol:

Seriously......mine is just past the vertical
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Re: mason query?

Post by scanner » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:37 pm

mikexgough wrote: Seriously......mine is just past the vertical
:shock:
But what about the needle?
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Post by mikexgough » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:11 pm

maybe I should have added "needle" to my reply.......and the needle is just past the vertical which on a clock face view would equate to 12:30........
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Re: mason query?

Post by daveblueozzie » Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:00 am

Mine sits about 1.30 to 2. ish and rises sometimes to near the red line when i push the accelerator a bit too much, or if i am dragging the caravan up and down hills.
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Post by mikexgough » Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:50 am

daveblueozzie wrote:Mine sits about 1.30 to 2. ish and rises sometimes to near the red line when i push the accelerator a bit too much, or if i am dragging the caravan up and down hills.
I was on a fast run up the A1M (over speed limit) :oops: ...... (to try the gauge out) and only went to 12:30 on the clock face, it went higher to around 1:00 in town in traffic after the run.....
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