I used to take my temp guage very seriously.

Now that I've had several of these cars and read tons of posts, I just allow for the guages to be off. I've never had one overheat and I've had guages reading well into the danger zones.

15, 123's later, I just don't trust the guage, but I do trust the indestructible 617's

diesel don

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