I'll check the guage, but from the factory guage never going up past the first two lines, only when it got to 170ish it went past them a little. And the new aftermarket guage seemingly go up and then down when cruising and stopping I think its good.
I'll toss a 180 stat inworst case I got to put it back in(160).
sounds like a bad guage.
BTW IDK if I've EVER seen you make a positive post?
Tom