Can anyone explain this?
last night i was driving on the 101 freeway in LA which they closed down and made us take a detour through city streets. So it was lots of waiting in stopped traffic and inching up. So obviously I was in going back and forth from first gear to idle, back and forth, clutch going in and out. (I have a manual.)
And the engine temperature started to climb to 190+. (It's almost always at 180.) It wasn't revving above 1500 RPM plus or minus, so I thought that was strange. (And it was 2 am, so it was cool out.)
And then the funniest thing happened. I got back on the freeway from the detour and opened it up, revving up to 5-6000 RPM, to see if there was some sort of problem...and the engine temperature actually declined back to 180!!
Can anyone explain this? Does it have to do with keeping the clutch in for longer periods of time? Seems very odd to me...
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