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You have a gross misconception of the relative temperatures of components in internal combustion engines, and you're using a faulty conclusion based on the same
by phaedrus 5y ago
You have a gross misconception of the relative temperatures of components in internal combustion engines, and you're using a faulty conclusion based on the same misunderstanding as supposed supporting evidence.
I assure you an RV or other gas/diesel vehicle does NOT suddenly go "pop!" and produce an engine fire when the needle reaches the right hand side of the temperature gauge.
The temperature gauge warns you when the coolant is at risk of boiling; it's not a warning that the engine is about to spontaneously combust.
- walrus01 5y agoright, that's why every burned out at the roadside RV I've seen in my lifetime (probably more than a dozen now) was on the upward slope of a high mountain pass, or at the peak... one of the points I was trying to make is that people don't maintain liquid cooling loops in general, and that's one of the more common instances of it. do you live somewhere flat? go ask the towtruck drivers who work the coquihalla highway in BC how many vehicle fires they see every year, and where those vehicle fires occur.