Hotdoggin
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TLR Happy operating temperatures for a B230FT?
1995 940T, auto, B230FT. Bone Stock.
Car runs great, had a leaky water pump, a cracked/failing coolant res, etc. Everything replaced, and new.
At length:
I bought one of those laser infrared thermometers, and poked the water neck on the head... it was right at 200 degrees, poked the outlet of the water pump, 208. Block was about 200, between 195 and 200. This is after a five mile drive home. Gauge on the dash is perfectly dead center. I don't trust Volvo temp gauges since they all have some sort of compensator circuit so the gauge doesn't move. Nearly lost a P2 car to that dumb BS.
1995 940T, auto, B230FT. Bone Stock.
Car runs great, had a leaky water pump, a cracked/failing coolant res, etc. Everything replaced, and new.
At length:
I bought one of those laser infrared thermometers, and poked the water neck on the head... it was right at 200 degrees, poked the outlet of the water pump, 208. Block was about 200, between 195 and 200. This is after a five mile drive home. Gauge on the dash is perfectly dead center. I don't trust Volvo temp gauges since they all have some sort of compensator circuit so the gauge doesn't move. Nearly lost a P2 car to that dumb BS.