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A thinking hat is always required. Even, and perhaps especially so, when you least expect it.
I haven't got a clue about the construction of the Diesel engine, but I can see the picture of the thermostat insert. It is similar to the one used in the V6. Now the V6 I know very well! So the way the V6 works is like this. When engine is cold. Thermostat is closed. Small spring loaded valve is off base, and allows water to flow from pump back into the engine. The water circulates around the inside of the engine, and into the heater, only. The radiator is not used. As the water heats up, the top disk starts moving down, opening the flow to the radiator, and the small disk starts to move down in unison, starting to close the flow into the block. At fully open top disk, the thermostat is allowing all the water to flow from the pump directly into the radiator, having, with the small disk, blocked any passage of hot water back in the engine. What the pump experiences is that it can circulate water. Initially just around the engine, which will assist with a uniform even heating up, and eventually switching to fully circulating into the radiator. Now, I am going to assume here, and I know I shouldn't do this, but it would be rather strange if the operation of this thermostat is not exactly alike. If I knew the construction of the fitting area, it would be easy to ascertain. |
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TC from the feel of it I don't think that normal pump pressure will move the disc. So it is more for overtravel when the disc valve has shut but the thermostat needs to open further.
If the system overheats then steam could well force it open if it could escape that way. Regarding the ball valve I'd say definitely used to bleed air from the system when filling, as the pump isn't self priming, and there is a vertical length of pipe below the thermostat that could airlock if the air can't escape. Once the pipe is filled with coolant pressure from the pump will keep the ball valve closed with the engine running. Mike Last edited by Mike Noc; 20th January 2012 at 22:51.. |
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If my assumption is right, there will be a connection from the small dish side of the thermostat back into the engine, and from the other end of the thermostat into the cooling radiator. In other words, the casting, piping whatever from the thermostat must have two outlets (plus the one for the heater normally). The one outlet could actually be an inlet, back into the engine, that would be controlled by the small disk. Excellent pictures btw. |
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When I read interesting, detailed, threads like these I have to wonder where are the engineers and designers who worked on the 75? Are there none on this forum? Did none of them actually buy the car they designed?
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I know of one involved in the design of the engine. He spent years on a particular item. Yet I can tell you he has not grasped the concept he helped design. It is frightening but true. That is one of the reasons there is so much mumbo jumbo around certain aspects of maintenance and repair. Oh, and I see you count has jumped!! Maybe it counts on quality, not quantity ;-)) |
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I suppose the process has to be compartmentalised, because of the complexity. Reminds me of the character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy whose role in designing the Earth, was just to design the Norwegian Fiords, or 'crinkley bits' as he called them.
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Compare that to a positive displacement (gear/piston etc) pump. Here you will have pressure of a nature that the jet can shoot through you hand, or crack a cylinder or bend a conrod! The thermostat in the Diesel will have nothing to do with pressure would be my thinking. |
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