What will happen if you put a thermostat in upside down?
What will happen if you put a thermostat in upside down?
So if you put it in backwards, the water pump flow will push open the thermostat and cause it to take MUCH longer to heat up. When a thermostat is in correct orientation, there needs to be coolant flow, else the stat will be in dead zone and take longer to heat up.
What should the thermostat be on a Cummins 6bta?
The Safety thing only gets better when you want to take this a step further with a redundant alarm system. The 180F thermostat engines with the unreliable and barely audible Cummins OEM circuit board alarm system trigger the alarm at 205F.
Can a Cummins Marine 5.9 engine overheat?
The Cummins Marine 5.9 engines are not very tolerant of overheats. In fact, it is very easy to not catch a rise in temperature and literally “cook” the engine.
When did Cummins start pushing up the HP?
———————- When Cummins was having an issues in the development phase on the 6CTA 8.3 (early 90’s) when they started pushing up the HP from 300 to 400, and then to 430/450, guess what they did?
Can a 160F Tstat be triggered by a 190F switch?
When running the 160F tstat you can have your redundant a.k.a “sleepyhead” alarm system triggered by a 190F switch. Therefore, your alarm is alerting the operator that something is amiss while the engine is still in a safe temperature range before irreversible damage is done.
The Safety thing only gets better when you want to take this a step further with a redundant alarm system. The 180F thermostat engines with the unreliable and barely audible Cummins OEM circuit board alarm system trigger the alarm at 205F.
The Cummins Marine 5.9 engines are not very tolerant of overheats. In fact, it is very easy to not catch a rise in temperature and literally “cook” the engine.
———————- When Cummins was having an issues in the development phase on the 6CTA 8.3 (early 90’s) when they started pushing up the HP from 300 to 400, and then to 430/450, guess what they did?
When running the 160F tstat you can have your redundant a.k.a “sleepyhead” alarm system triggered by a 190F switch. Therefore, your alarm is alerting the operator that something is amiss while the engine is still in a safe temperature range before irreversible damage is done.
