Thread: Towing Mods: how hot can we safely get a D24T?
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Old 08-25-2013, 03:45 PM
RedArrow RedArrow is offline
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Cook YOUR head instead of warping aluminium! Ask me how I know... Many, many times I saved car(s) and myself too by turning the heat on, full blast; it definitely does help a lot!
Especially because you can never really truly know how close you already got to the edge of a later serious & irreversible overheating. Yesterday I PM-d him about it and I hope he got the message in time before his departure...
Let me off-topic a little: We used to have a unique Volga wagon pimped with the 6 cyl PRV engine that was one unreliable engine, needing so many things fixed all times, and that car was slightly overheating all the time, ate a couple of headgaskets but turning the heat on always worked for years to get around town... long story from around 1978-1989. RIP, he rusted away since then, I`m sure. My Dad might be driving it in Heaven...
Heat up, open the sunroof.
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