Sweet!

 

thnks ya'll i will be installing the water temp gauge this week, also new radiator and fan clutch to be safe...also found on summit a dual fluid cooler kit for $100...it comes w/ cooler, oil filter adapter, hose, and fittings.

 

mine fluctuates amongst the normal range with AC on and heavy traffic it gets into the red sometimes.



thats my cluster only im about 138,500 miles now. but my engine temp is normal about where its at there and goes up some. when it gets hot. and my oil pressure went up a bit when i switched to synthetic.

 

But during normal driving it doesn't move, unless you're in trouble.

 

Dude, you have SERIOUS cooling issues. It should NEVER move above 1/2 way under ANY circumstances. You need to work on your truck before you have to walk home. And the oil pressure guage doesn't fluctuate unless you reach EXTREME pressures either way. So you need to do something about that too!

 

Ummmm, debatable...The hottest water in the cooling system is going to be right at the thermostat before it exits the engine. In a perfect world, the ideal place to monitor water temp would be right in the thermostat housing itself just on the engine side. That upper heater hose is pretty dang close to this location. Also, your location would not work for someone with a mechanical temp gauge.

 

oil pressure doesnt fluctuate but i said it did increase since i switched to synthetic.

 

But in normal day to day driving the gague does not move at all, except from zero to it's "normal" range on start up.

 

You are right - it is debatable. Knowing what the absolute hottest water temps are, just before it enters the radiator, means nothing to me.

What the overall temp of the engine is (via water temp in the block, where it is cooling the cylinders) is more important to me.

Just a difference of opinion, I guess.

 

Mine lives in the 198-202 range. I was just in Phoenix again (110*) and it ran 204-208 in city driving, and 202-204 on the freeway. IATs with the stock air box were even getting up over 140 in the city, but dropped to 1-2 degrees above ambient after a few miles on the freeway. People who think IATs drop to ambient with city driving are sadly mistaken.

 

my temp gauge does move if im idling for a few min ill see it move slighly then my fan kicks on and it goes back down... my fan is set to kick on when coolant temp is 200F and block temp is 210F

 

My oil pressure goes up when the motor loses oil to the passenger side lifters. Explain that on to me. I have tried to determinw what is causing this, to no avail. but the needle goes another quarter distance up the range while it is rattling. when the rattling quits, oil gaige shows normal.

 

My truck has the fake oil pressure gauge, but the temp gauge is real. It goes up slowly as the engine warms up, and a few months ago when i was really low on coolant, it rose to the high side of it. I've never acutally heard of a fake gauge for the water temp on a ford, all three of mine have had real gauges. Does this mean when you guys start your trucks the gauge reads 0 for a while, then jumps right up the the "operating" temperature when it's reached?

 

D, it slowly moves up, but reaches "normal" around 160 - 180*, even though it normally runs at around 200*. Mine hasn't moved up til about 218*, which is the highest I've ever seen it.

 

It's been a while since i've studied the gauge, but I don't remember anything on it indicating an actual number for the temperature, just "normal" range.

While I was typing that, the wife called while driving the truck so I asked what it looked like, "just a C at the bottom and an H at the top." Are there stock gauges that claim an actual number for the temp then?