Where on the temp gauge is your swap running?

[daniel]

my temp gauge is always below half just slightly, except a couple times in the spring going uphill slowly on the highway in 5th gear at low rpms when it was hot outside it crept past the halfway mark.

correction: it usually sits right in between the middle mark and the mark to the left. i don't know what i was saying. sometimes it is even closer to the left mark.

if the engine is hot and i turn off the motor, wait a second and turn it back on, the gauge will jump up past the middle mark just for a bit, but once i start driving it goes to normal.

[tonytony]

my nvm50 with a m42 radiator runs around the 1/4 mark, but when i was in cali recently it was running around 1/2 mark while on the highway

[Beej '86 325es]

3/4 mark with stewart water pump, only aux fan (w/o a/c condenser) and 40mm PWR radiator. The gas gauge is screwed up though, i suspect the temp gauge may be also.

[87e30]

rthor, what joints did you solder?

My gauge was reading right at the halfway mark for the past couple days with 82deg tstat. Went out for a longer drive and it was at 1/2 when on the freeway. Turned onto rough city streets and the gauge started bouncing around and sometimes going up to and pegging full hot. Pretty inconsistant, usually when I started driving hard the gauge would instantly shoot down to 1/2 again.