Microlighters

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

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........

Stephan van Tonder wrote: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.....

Stephan van Tonder wrote: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.

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

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

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

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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?

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

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.