Just to clarify this point, this is my experience on one particular bongo, which had the centre core of the stat cut out as it was failing to open till it reached a constant 100 degrees.bigdaddycain wrote:
The bottom hose runs hotter when the stat is fully opened incidentally....
Minutes before,the hose stayed luke warm/cool... The only reason the hose had any temperature in it, was simply down to heat soak from the other side of the stat.
The thermostat in question had effectively become nothing more than a bung, with the coolant passing over it quickly,with hardly any obstruction.
In a normal situation, where the stat is complete, the opening for the coolant is still quite restricted even with the stat fully open.
When the stat has the inner core removed, the temp guage reads just above the "c" mark,and doesn't really get much higher.
Perhaps Pat mc Kenna can confirm/correct me on this?
Hope this clears things up, glad we are all mates again....
