Thread: Defender Running Temp

I have recently upgraded my water temp gage to A VDO and have a few questions about the running temps for a 300tdi fender.
With the old guage the temp never moved of half but with the VDO it sits on 92 degrees and rises to 98 Odd when pushing up hills on the freeway or at speed. As it's cold at the moment I am concerned that in summer the temps will rise to 100 or more. Is this normal? Also the temp seems to rise and fall a lot now where as before it never moved.

Has anyone gone through this and can set my mind at ease. What is too hot for a 300tdi?

Preety normal, the orignal gauge is at best an indicator. My disco runs about the same temps. Crossing the nullabbor in 35 + degrease it was running about 100, standard gauge reads normal to about 100 and at 105 its sitting just under the red line on the standard gauge. Dont panic
cheers
blaze