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Posted by F14 on February 15, 2000 at 09:54:00 from (209.222.216.2):
In Reply to: Re: Dumb Question posted by Alberta Mike on February 15, 2000 at 09:44:19:
Shutters were also necessary/common on "Thermosyphon" cooling systems...ie, tractors with no thermostat and no water pump. John Deeres until about 1952, most all tractors until about 1940-something. It's the only way you could get the things up to operating temperature. Even on gas, I don't work my 1938 F14 hard enough to get the temp gauge off the peg. Only time I've ever moved it is when I was trying to haul a 2-14 plow. Got it up to about 160, cracked the shutters a notch to see what would happen, dropped it right back to about 120, just barely off the peg. Of course, we're talking about an engine that only develops 12-14 horsepower.
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