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Old 01-21-2015, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by funola View Post
Please explain what you mean by "Mercedes chose such incredibly high temps for the Diesel cars"? Are you referring to the T-stat temp or the viscous clutch engagement temp?

Did you eliminate the clutch fan and run only the AC electric fan via a 95C temp switch on the head? How does it perform? How often does the fan kick on?
It's incorrect for any car to have 20-30 temperature swings in normal driving. Maybe sitting in traffic on a very hot day or climbing a mountain. But in normal driving, no. These are the only cars I know where such swings are routine, due to a very wacky design. The fans are intended to engage progressively, but even in perfect condition, don't keep temps anywhere near level. And with three separate mechanisms for fan control, the odds of component failure are high. I've heard a lot of excuses for why this should be, not one makes sense.

As a design goal, a cooling system engineer wants to hold temperatures as steady as possible to limit pressure fluctuation. For a cooling system, varying pressure is like flexing a piece of metal until it fatigues. Highly variable pressure will eventually promote component failure.

I use the temp switch to engage the aux fans just prior to the clutch fan engaging. They run quite a bit more than they normally would. But my temperatures stay in a tight range, rarely over 90, and never hit 100. This effectively eliminates the clutch fan, because air temps almost never get hot enough for it to engage. And the added benefit is that I have working A/C, even in heavy traffic.
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