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This subject has probley been brought up previously, but could someone enlighten me to the
right way for thermostate to be set into the houseing , also the right one with the right degrees number
for my dexta, iknow this is avery important part and can cause overheating if not installed properly
Thanking you sky blue

The end with the big spring and 'bulb' goes into the block.....

They originally came with 160 degree thermostats (at least mine had one in the 70's when I got it).....these don't seem to be available anymore.....170 to 180 degree should be fine...what you don't want is the coolant boiling in the radiator/ water jacket....make sure you have a good, working pressure cap on the radiator. I'm told some came with a plain cap originally.

The temp gauges make it confusing...they show 'normal' as 160 to 170...makes sense if you have a 160 thermostat.

thanks for that commander, one other thing , i have a rep/ gauge in my dexta it reads 90 yellow 150 green ,175 to 230 degrees this is
into the red on gauge ,when i am working her hard it will climb into red , the reading goes up to 230 in the
red although i never get up near this.it will at times go about a third of the way in to red, would this be normal or is it overheating when in red .
sky blue