Help Me Cool Down

This is my experience with a 74 Plymouth fury 318. When I got this car it was a low mileage totally all factory set up with never anything done to it. The temp gauge always showed a little over Center. That just bothered the hell out of me. So I got the brain wave to change the T stat. I had the car on many long trips. It had a 195 t stat. I went to a 160. It got hit within 20 miles on the hiway Then I went to a 180, got hot in about 50 miles. Went back to the 195. Problem solved. Well there never really was a problem other than the 1 I created. Gauge was happy being over the Center. I wasn’t. I took the cluster out and bent the needle back. Now I’m happy. Kim