GQ Heating problems...

A new take on the age old GQ Cooling problems.

Took a two week camping trip to the Snowy Mountains and had the change to do an interesting comparison. The only time I'd really flogged the truck for an extended period was on Stockton beach on a 35 odd degree day, with Air Con full blast. I was worried about how hot she'd go after all the scuttlebut, but the needle sat dead on 50% of the guage and didn't move all day.

On the trip I had another chance, or requirement, to flog her again. Climbing up the Alpine Way from Tom Groggin Camp site back to Dead horse Gap (Section from Kancoban to Thredbo) was all steep twisty 2/3 gear work flogging her nearly as hard. This time temp was 10 at most, and the needle sat rock steady in the same place.

Says to me the cooling system is managing the temperature perfectly, despite large ambient varaitions. So the real problem is that it runs too cold when it's not being worked, not that it overheats when it is. This could also explain why they're such a dirty engine, they're never up to temperature.

BTW, completly bog standarad cooling system, dirty and, as I discovered the other day, dented in some places radiator. Did have the coolant flushed and changed a while back.

Just my thoughts.
Cheers.