Radiator and Temperature

[Conrad]

Please help
I have a silver top 582,
How can I calibrate the temperature, or, what should the min and max be on the temp guage?

What is the best position for the radiator/s ?

[Stephan van Tonder]

to test your gauge take it out of the motor. Connect a wire around it's body and back to the engine for earth - boil a kettle and dunk it in there. Water at the highveld boil at around 97 dgerees. Corrct engine temp is between 65 and 80 degrees max.

[Duck Rogers]

There shouldn't be a need to earth it back to the motor. Just dunk it in the kettle after it's boiled. Should open.
You can play around with a thermometer to check the temp of the water before it boils, and see where the thermostat opens.

[Conrad]

Thanx guys
Now,
where would be best to mount radiators, with an up-side-down 582?
I plan to move the current position to bottom, itl look much better.

[Stephan van Tonder]

Duck - Thermostat and temperature gauge are 2 very different pieces of equipment.....

Thermostat opens the hole in the block to allow circulation of water. It's action is based on a thermo wax or gas expanding in a chamber and has nothing at all to do with the temp gauge and probe.

A temparture gauge is an electric meter that reads a resitance over a probe - to be able to read the resistance of the probe it needs a fully completed circuit thus have to have an earth back to the motor when you unscrew it to dunk it in the kettle........

[Duck Rogers]

Duck - Thermostat and temperature gauge are 2 very different pieces of equipment.....

Thermostat opens the hole in the block to allow circulation of water. It's action is based on a thermo wax or gas expanding in a chamber and has nothing at all to do with the temp gauge and probe.

A temparture gauge is an electric meter that reads a resitance over a probe - to be able to read the resistance of the probe it needs a fully completed circuit thus have to have an earth back to the motor when you unscrew it to dunk it in the kettle........

Thanks for the lesson Stephan.....I'M NOT DOF. I know full well the difference between a gauge and a thermostat, and how they're assembled and what makes them tick..
I READ thermostat while you were THINKING gauge. I never gave the GAUGE a thought due to you dunking it in the kettle.....

to test your gauge take it out of the motor. Connect a wire around it's body and back to the engine for earth - boil a kettle and dunk it in there.

Won't last very long that way.

[Stephan van Tonder]

Sorry only trying to be helpfull. Won't do that again. Saw no mention of a thermostat on his post at all.

[Duck Rogers]

Neither did I. Just assumed you were talking thermostat by dunking it....
Quits. Still love you

[Duck Rogers]

Oh...and don't stop posting or being helpful, unlike others who stop posting when their advice is not being followed...

[Conrad]

OOOOkk..K
Is jul nou klaar?
Now, tell me. Where would be the best mounting for the radiators.
Top or bottom, I would like to move them down and also get a new one, as the old set is leaking.
Can someone help with a bracket?

[Duck Rogers]

Sorry Conrad...........don't know.
Anyone else?

[Stephan van Tonder]

Conrad - ask Andy about mounting radiators. It depends on trike to trike and some has trouble with them low or high. I personally don't like low radiators as they have a bigger chance of getting damaged when you go into rougher fields.